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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 25 undergraduates are expected to turn out for the first meeting of the ski team, to be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room. Again, as last year, Charles N. Proctor, former Dartmouth and Olympic skier, will be in charge of the team...
...average of once a month when he is in Washington, President Roosevelt spends Sunday morning at church. Accompanied by Secret Service men, he drives to St. Thomas' Episcopal Church at 18th & Church Streets, N. W. Entering at the side by a ramp and marquee especially installed for him, the President always occupies the same pew, shares it with the Secret Service men. For nearly four years they, and whoever else has happened to be with Mr. Roosevelt, have listened to sermons by Rev. Dr. Charles Ernest Smith who has been at St. Thomas' since 1902. This British-born...
This year not an English magazine but one of William Randolph Hearst's publishing properties furnished the newest entrant n the Christmas annual field. Celebrating its birthday, Manhattan's 90-year-old Town & Country came out with a handsome 204-page issue, largest in its history, billed as America's "First Christmas Annual." Featured was a nostalgic article on old-time college proms by Town & Country's fashion editor, Mrs. Chester La Roche, sister of Cinemactress Rosalind Russell; descriptions by Sportsman Foxhall Keene of his 18 injuries sustained in sport; and a two-page, full-color...
Reading Eugene Armfield's Where the Weak Grow Strong is like trying to carry too many bundles at one time, dropping several whenever you pick up one. It begins on a July morning of 1912, when the northbound flyer whistles for Tuttle, N. C. (pop. 5,000), a dead town that contains a chair factory, a textile mill, an undue proportion of neurotic inhabitants. The whistle makes a baby cry, gives a little girl a nightmare, disturbs a dying man, awakens a bridegroom, arouses a bride. Thereafter for 395 pages, as exhaustively as a census taker, Author Armfield moves...
Near Asbury Park, N. J., Invalid Hermann Schaar, 65, had his sons push his wheelchair into the woods, sat still while his dogs rounded up game, bagged six rabbits without moving...