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Meanwhile, the college of the 100 classics had run afoul of its first big snag. Some immortal thinkers are out of print, others have never been translated from the original Greek or Latin. To rescue their imperishable thoughts from oblivion and make them available to its students, St. John's has had to make its own translations, print its own copies of such thinkers as Nicomachus, Apollonius, Lucian, Gilbert, Aristarchus...
With the announcement by a small but politically active group of the Faculty, led by Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, that they would work to send candidate James M. Curley back into oblivion, prospects for a lively campaign were definitely enhanced...
...Northeast Quarter" of Berlin, where tenements are tall and rations short, a worn old woman last year passed her 70th birthday in public oblivion. Ten years before, as one of the most powerful living woman artists, she had been honored with a big retrospective exhibition. Five years before, she had been director of the Graphic Arts department of the Berlin Academy. But the canons of Nazi art were such that, though she continued to work, Kathe Kollwitz had no more exhibitions in Germany after...
Telling the story of a lady of disrepute who leaps from the oblivion of a Hollywood dive to the magnificence of a Hollywood winter resort, "The Bride Wore Red" gives itself away almost before it starts, so obvious is the plot. In fact the film's greatest asset is the fact that it suffers no illusions as to its own importance. Pleasantly it wends its way, and pleasantly it will affect the cinematic taste of the semi-sentimental moviegoer...
...Pilot S. J. Samson. Last Dec. 14, Pilot Samson took off from Los Angeles on his regular run to Salt Lake City in a Western Air Express Boeing. After stopping at Las Vegas, Nev., the twin-motored transport droned on north into a wintry night and oblivion (TIME, Dec. 28). Aboard the plane, which last reported hitting 199 m.p.h. at 10,000 ft. under a "high overcast," were four passengers, a co-pilot and pretty Hostess Gladys Witt, whose marital indecisions had been making headlines. When the plane never arrived, WAE launched a search which continued spasmodically until last week...