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Canton, for over 1,000 years the great port of South China, lies on the delta of the Pearl River, in the centre of a broad rice-growing valley. A municipal paradox, the city's wide, clean boulevards lined with modern apartments and shops run parallel with filthy, unpaved alleys, so narrow that three people cannot walk abreast, lined with squalid one-story hovels. Fully one-third of the city's 1,000,000 Chinese live on dirty, water-logged sampans, jam-packed along the river fronts...
...Swarthmore, Albert Einstein marched in the procession bareheaded, his great white mane gleaming in the sun. Reading without emotion from a six-page manuscript, Scientist Einstein told Swarthmore's graduates that failure of the modern world to develop a new morality to replace the declining influence of religion had resulted in "a serious weakening of moral thought and sentiment," in "the barbarization of political ways." The surrender of some European nations to "primitive animal instincts," said he, "if persisted in, will destroy civilization, religion and morality...
...symphonic music. So has Bernardino Molinari, the spry, white-haired conductor who is currently conducting a series of three broadcasts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. But last week, as he announced the program of his final broadcast, even patriotic Conductor Molinari had neglected his Italian contemporaries. Only modern pieces were Composer Respighi's Le Fontane di Roma, and Composer Pizzetti's suite of incidental music for D'Annunzio's drama, La Pisanella...
...Mohawk and Oriskany valleys. Like Statesman Root the classical character of this stanch old institution, named after Alexander Hamilton, its first trustee, is illustrated in the apocryphal story that its quarterbacks call signals in the language of Euclid. The College has not fallen in with the parade of modern big-time intercollegiate athletics, it still has a rule against drinking, it proudly rejected the National Youth Administration's offer of aid to its students. But even Hamilton, on whose board of trustees sits Old Grad Alexander Woollcott, as well as Elihu Root Jr., has made some concessions...
...Flash Gordon zip and gleam of modern, streamlined, air-conditioned railway travel have been taken for granted for years by cinemaddicts, toy makers, and U. S. travelers in the West. Last week Eastern railway passenger travel suddenly got Flashed up when two of the nation's most famous trains, New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited, were streamlined to the last rivet and brake beam and made into the first all-room Pullman trains...