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...Cairo, a junction point between London, Washington and Moscow, British authorities suddenly requisitioned the Mena hotel, acted as though they were readying it for all-important guests to be in residence or in transit...
Egyptians still have endless time for pomp and ceremony. This weekend the entire village of Mena gathered for two days in the shadows of the Pyramids to celebrate the wedding of a village...
...ahead of the times but behind the times is Professor Slichter's school for employers, for Labor has already provided itself on a much larger scale with schools for employes including Labor colleges (Brookwood, in Katonah, N. Y., Commonwealth, in Mena, Ark.). Many a C.I.O. union has recently established an educational department, which not only teaches workers Labor history but trains them in collective bargaining strategy, psychology, public speaking, influencing public opinion. Largest and oldest of such programs is that of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, directed by astute, British-born Mark Starr, which has 20,000 workers...
Fortnight ago, the small-time circus of onetime cinema Cowboy Jack Hoxie. played Independence, Mo. Among the menagerie was a 57-year-old female performing elephant named Mena, ballyhooed as the "Largest Female Pachyderm in Captivity." Cowboy Hoxie decided that Mena, her trainer, and his pinto pony were costing too much money. He gave Trainer Cooper $10 and proceeded on his way. The $10 bought elephant, horse and man one meal. Ingenious Trainer Cooper decided to start a circus of his own, set up on a vacant lot on U. S. Route 24, put Mena through her paces. Townspeople brought...
Commonwealth College, founded in 1923 as a heterodox academy where left-wingers of all shades might work and study, was oddly built, and oddly remains, on a 320-acre tract near Mena in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. A cluster of frame houses, halls and barns in which all the manual labor is done by faculty and students, the College is detested by many of the local citizenry who got the Arkansas Legislature to investigate "free love" and ''nudism" at Commonwealth, and last winter Rev. Luther D. Summers, a Baptist of Mena, led a crusade to make...