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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LIGHT WOMAN-Zona Gale-Appleton-Century ($2). Fluffy stage piece, transmogrified into the story of what happens in the old homestead (upstate New York) when oldest Son Nicholas arrives with playful Mitty, his supposed wife, for the family reunion...
...China, biggest and oldest civilized country in the world, few people can read and write. Of those few, many fewer know the "correct," classical language, in which all Chinese masterpieces have been written, time out of mind. In 1917, when China's civilization began to come rapidly apart, plain speech (pai-hua} began to be literarily respectable, is now the accepted written language for China's literates. To give a sample of what present-day Chinese are reading, Journalist Edgar Snow last week published a translation of 24 pai-hua stories...
Three men were elected to the Board of Directors, which also includes the officers. They are: Whedon Johnson '40, Daniel S. Roosevelt '40, and Henry S. Stone '38. Of the 35 flyers in the Club, the oldest of its kind in America, 20 are licensed pilots. During the coming summer the Club will compete abroad...
Governor McMullen and Senator Hughes of Delaware came to see the ceremony when Judge Joseph Buffington, at 81 the oldest man on the Federal bench, inducted Youngster Biggs. The affair could not have been more amiable. In the first place Judge Buffington is no gaffer. He still keeps a medicine ball in his chambers which he delights to jam into the abdomens of elderly colleagues. He was married to his third wife only six years ago and still likes to go occasionally to a night club. Moreover, he remembers that he also got his start in politics at a convention...
When Dr. John Alexander Mackay was inducted as president of the Princeton University Theological Seminary, the oldest theological school of the Presbyterian church in the U. S., the procession of famed educators that attended arrived greatly disheveled and windblown...