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...Flung Huey upped his average a mite last week, from .691 to .706. He's gunning for better than .750 on today's games. The Harlow men will edge out the Hanoverians, he figures; Kentucky and Cornell look good to him, and the upsets are Brown over Holy Cross and Wake Forest over mighty Duke. Harvard 6 Dartmouth 0 Kentucky 20 Georgia 12 Arkansas 7 Miss 6 Navy 14 Yale 13 Princeton 20 Rutgers 7 Penn 20 Michigan 19 Cornell 7 Ohio State 0 Brown 6 Holy Cross 0 Washington 19 California 6 Purdue 14 Wisconsin 6 Texas 20 Rice...
Here a nicely managed plot thickens and begins to curdle. Not only do they find a stowaway, but she gives birth to a baby. Rough sailors with hearts of Holland Rusk are softened by a Helpless Mite. After shipping this comber of sentiment the story rights itself and moves ahead with almost its old blend of sinister excitement, rather brilliant writing, and psychological veracity. But the diaper sequences are not quite forgivable in an author who can produce the rest of the book...
...idea caught hold. The committee in charge of profits from the sale of Mein Kampf in the U. S. agreed to help pay the expenses of the mite campaign, made Adolf Hitler an unwitting contributor...
Eleanor Roosevelt accepted chairmanship of the committee to distribute the fund. Last week, Mrs. Fisher's Children's Crusade was on the march in 250,000 schools throughout the U. S., and in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone. Into 1,000,000 mite boxes children dropped one penny for each year of their age. In New York City's Bronx, 150 moppets (aged five to 16) in the Colored Orphan Asylum raised $3.50 by giving up their Sunday dinner ration of ice cream, though the sacrifice made crusaders quiver (see cut). Said President Roosevelt reassuringly: "Every...
...biggest, coldest, and most callous city in the world, this mighty mite--part-Italian, part-Jewish, and very poor by birth--had endeared himself to millions of metropolitan hearts. His willingness to express himself frankly and enthusiastically on any subject imaginable had gained Fiorello H. La Guardia the reputation of complete honesty and sincerity among his fellow New Yorkers and among his many admirers all through the country...