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...read them. The prime aim was to put the reader at his case, to "make him feel at home," and to this end the room was comfortably furnished and attractively draped, and red tape was reduced to a minimum. No elaborate card-catalogues or "systems" were employed, and the nucleus of what is now a collection of five thousand volumes, was placed on the shelves alphabetically by authors. Book marks were placed on the tables to encourage the reader to come in again and pick up where he had left off. By these means the room has become an infinite...
Greatest task of a Freshman coach is to pick a working nucleus from a crowd of completely unknown candidates. But "Skip" has had practice at this sort of job, and named the following tentative starting eleven with little hesitation...
Early in March, Smigly-Rydz had his political tool, bald-headed Colonel Adam Koc (pronounced kotz) merge the Pilsudski Legionnaires with a few scattered middleclass, youth, workers' groups into a nucleus with the sonorous title "Camp of National Unity." Koc, realizing that "national unity" was an empty formula without support of two large groups-the National Democrats (made up of conservative nationalists) and the peasants- suggested to his political boss that concessions be made to induce one or both groups to join the united front. Price for peasant support was the return of Witos...
...Nucleus of the theology of Harlem's Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine is the idea that God is in everyone. Last week this idea became an issue in Los Angeles' Federal Court where portly John Wuest...
...Ehrenwiesen, who helped him make his collection of pure "nonobjective" paintings, lately shown in Philadelphia (TIME, Feb. 15). Now housed partly in the Guggenheim house at Port Washington, N. Y.. partly in Mr. Guggenheim's apartment at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, the collection will be the nucleus for a museum of abstract art of which the Baroness was named curator. To educate the U. S. public in the debatable serenities and excitements of painting which represents nothing but colored space, the Foundation is chartered to provide lectureships, scholarships, exhibitions and publications. Wrote Solomon Guggenheim...