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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high holy day for radicals throughout the world. For Roman Catholics it is the first day of a month devoted to honoring the Blessed Virgin. Almost five years ago a Catholic observed May Day both ways. On May 1, 1933 Dorothy Day appeared in Manhattan's Union Square, handed out to radical demonstrators nearly 2,500 free copies of the first issue of a 1? monthly, the Catholic Worker. Since then the circulation of the Catholic Worker has mounted to 125,000. Last week the paper called for volunteers to distribute copies in Union Square May i, under...
Before the floods last month, Los Angeles' non-profit-making Zoopark, owned by the California Zoological Society, had managed to keep itself going. But it had never built a reserve fund from admission charges, sale of animals, concessions and, most important, renting animal actors to films. Among Zoopark's characters: Jackie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's trademark lion; Nissa and Sweetheart, leopards which stalked through Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn; Anna May, veteran jungle-film elephant; Lady, the whooping crane which danced with Shirley Temple in Captain January...
...average senior at Manhattan's Columbia college is a strapping fellow old enough to vote. Last month he was asked to vote on a great number of pertinent and nonsensical questions. By last week it was clear that the average Columbia senior expects to be making $5,000 a year five years after graduation. But if by some chance he should be cast away on some desert island, the companion he would choose would be golden blonde Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll. The scholarly reason: her ability to speak French...
...born. Although it had been approved by the U. S. Post Office, it was banned by local law officers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and some 60 other communities. No copies were permitted to cross the Canadian border. The birth pictures appeared in the April 11 issue of 17-month-old LIFE...
...Considered sponsoring a program of junking jalopies. Last month the automobile industry got together National Used Car Exchange Week. This got rid of some 60,000 used cars, but dealers' lots are still glutted. On Franklin Roosevelt's desk last week lay the results of a Federal survey of dealer opinions on the problem, most of them advocating some sort of scrapping program with Federal funds or sponsorship...