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...Miss Brazil (svelte Olga Bergamini De Sa ?TIME, June 10). On the night of the Contest two special wires carried the story from Galveston to New York, thence by direct cable to Buenos Aires where special United Press editors hung over the keyboard to relay the story northward to Rio de Janeiro. Huge crowds were gathered in front of the big Rio newspaper offices to watch returns flashed on the screen...
...superfluous to point out the disastrous results which have attended opportunistic policies of publicity in universities of the past. We have only to look northward to Cambridge to see the most recent example. The sum total of this Fabian policy is always doubt and misapprehension, giving rise to all sorts of misinformation and surmise. Yale owes a debt to her graduates and undergraduates alike in keeping them well informed as to current university procedures...
...Moving northward Coach Mitchell's nine engaged Columbia in New York on Saturday. The contest developed into a pitchers duel between Whitmore am Ozerny of the Lions. The former allowed four hits and struck out 13 while the latter let the Harvard nine down with three safeties and fanned ten. Harvard's run was accounted for by T. W. Gilligan '31, when he hit for the circuit in the fifth inning...
...dean of the Ringling circus pachydermous corps. Eleven years ago Asiatic Albert (Elephas maximus) was smitten by hay fever, with earth-shaking results. Since then, the snuffling bull has been permitted to spend his years beneath the Florida sun; but this spring it was decreed that Albert should journey northward. The unwell ungulate journeyed. Swiftly he contracted pneumonia. And, despite depth bombs charged with quinine, and gallons of legally prescribed liquor, he died. Notable is the fact that he died most opportunely; in time to burst into print just before the circus's splendiferous opening in Manhattan...
...Italian correspondent, a passenger on that ship has given to the world, in good straightforward newspaper style, the story of that fearful trek northward. The Soviet enemies of humanity are revealed as men brave in the performance of the highest duty laid on man, and the alternate hope and despair that filled their hearts as they searched the dreary wastes, week after week, find an answer in the reader, so simply and graphically is the tale told...