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...contract bridge players assembled last week to play for the Vanderbilt Cup, blue ribbon U. S. championship for four-man teams. After 5 days of qualifying rounds and "knockout" elimination matches, the field of 28 teams narrowed down to two. Finalists were the defending champions, the Four Aces (Oswald Jacoby, David Burnstine, Howard Schenken, Merwin Maier and alternate Sherman Stearns), and a quartet of Donor Harold Vanderbilt's old teammates, headed by Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz. At the end of the 72-deal final, the Four Aces won the Cup for the fourth time in the past five years...
LONDON--Rioting between Sir Oswald Mosley's British Fascists and Leftist demonstrators marked rival May Day celebrations in London today when anti-Fascists pelted Mesley with stones as he spoke to a Rightist crowd in Jamaica Street, Bermondsley. Several persons were arrested, mostly Leftists, after scuffling with the Fascists and with mounted police who charged into the milling crowd
...Brattle Hall yesterday afternoon, Oswald Twittleberg '38 hopped to a thrilling one-lap victory to win the all-collegiate hopscotch championship of New England. Because this is the second consecutive year that the Crimson hoppers have won the meet, a petition is being circulated demanding that hop-scotch be made a major sport...
...editors expressed the opinion that justice was being done in Moscow were exclusively Communist papers of the Stalin faction. Very much alone under the klieg lights, as Stalin's cameras looked them in the eye, the 21 did not know that such a typical U. S. liberal as Oswald Garrison Villard, who for years has been a friendly observer of Communism, was declaring last week in The Nation: "The Kremlin is undermining everything good the Revolution sought to accomplish. . . . Madness has taken charge of the Soviets. . . . Great states fall . . . when the masses awake to the fact that justice...
...well qualified for the job. Founded nine years before as the result of a disastrous race riot in Abraham Lincoln's home town of Springfield, 111. the N. A. A. C. P. was then a smallish but idealistic organization with a masthead of big names, among them liberal Editor Oswald Garrison Villard and famed Boston Lawyer Moorfield Storey...