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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinemas a similar pastime, screeno, fills houses no matter how bad the bill. Though in Grand Rapids, Mich, a woman was arrested for sponsoring beano games last year (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935), elsewhere officials have winked at the game if it violated antigambling statutes. The Catholic Bishop of Albany, N. Y., Most Reverend Edmund F. Gibbons, made news last week by becoming the first prelate to forbid such gambling on Catholic property. Wrote he of the game, in which anything from $1 up may be won by filling five numbered squares in a row with beans as the numbers...
...into church. To rekindle themselves and their followers, the Federal Council of Churches sent out a "Preaching Mission" of 70 crack pulpiteers last autumn. Last week, in the wake of the Mission's Manhattan windup (TIME, Dec. 14), the Federal Council held its biennial meeting in Asbury Park. N...
...Hannes Schneider visited Japan for one month at $10,000 to teach its royal family, army officers and students how to ski. This year, two of his St. Anton assistants-Benno Rybiczka and Otto Lang-will start U. S. branches of the Arlberg Ski School at Jackson, N. H., Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier, in Washington. Still raging among expert skiers is the argument about the Arlberg v. Norwegian technique. In the U. S., where Erling Stromm, ski teacher at the Lake Placid Club, is the No. 1 exponent of the Norwegian school, the Arlberg technique is currently gaining momentum...
...Montclair, N. J. 300 Yalemen made merry at the first "Nick Roberts' Old Yale Barn Party" staged since 1933 after the custom inaugurated by Yaleman Nicholas Roberts, onetime head of defunct S. W. Straus & Co., Manhattan bondhouse. The Yalemen cheered peptalks by Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, Captain Lawrence Morgan ("Larry") Kelley and Captain-elect Clinton Frank, sang Boola, Boola under the direction of Radio Singer Lancelot ("Lanny") Ross, 1927 Yale track captain. The Montclair Yale Bowl awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his Y in life," first won in 1926 by Pennsylvania Railroad's late...
...Princeton, N. J. Mrs. Elsa Einstein, wife of Physicist Albert Einstein, was stricken with a heart attack...