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...seat of learning is the College of the City of New York, many of whose 22,000 politically-minded students seem to get their best fun at mass meetings or on picket lines. Completely antipodal is C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, goateed, independent oldster who dresses conservatively, plays the cello, hates the rude manners of his undergraduates. After President Robinson characterized some C. C. N. Y. demonstrators as "guttersnipes" and trounced a dozen of the rowdiest of them with his umbrella, a committee of alumni solemnly found that he lacked the "necessary human qualities...
Died. General Karl Litzmann, 86, commander of the Imperial German Army which broke through the Russian Front in 1917, ardent Nazi; of old age; in New Globsow, Pomerania. Because the Reichstag is traditionally opened by its oldest member, Nazis elected Oldster Litzmann a deputy in 1932 to sidetrack Communist Clara Zetkin, then...
...denounced his Planacea as a monstrous fantasy, but for Founder Townsend they had only pitying sympathy. He might be simpleminded, but he was also, they were sure, greathearted. Even when ugly rumors rose that the Townsend Plan had turned out to be only another mean racket, with poor deluded oldsters as its victims, such charges simply made most observers believe that good, grey Dr. Townsend was being used as a front by sharpers who had swarmed into his Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. First hint that Dr. Townsend was more than a simple, pious figurehead came last March when shrewd...
...polled four votes to every three for Edge, Duffield, Conklin, surpassed Fort 3-to-1. Nevertheless, final results added little to the Governor's prestige. The Landon slate beat the Borah slate 4-to-1. Among Landon delegates-at-large, however, Hoffman ran fourth, 50,000 votes behind Oldster Edge, whose comeback raised political eyebrows. Recognizing the rebuke, the Governor announced with unaccustomed modesty that he would not aspire to chairman the New Jersey delegation at Cleveland, resigned that post of honor to Mr. Duffield...
...their titles as seldom as possible is 25-year-old Freddie Miller. No. 1 featherweight. A stoop-shouldered left-hander with considerable ability, he has whipped 19 challengers since 1933. Three times he beat Petey Sarron, a tough little Syrian from Birmingham, Ala. who. at 28, is an experienced oldster in the ring...