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...willingness to be of assistance in preparing for approaching examinations. He rents a floor in a dingy building directly across from the freshman dormitories, hires 21 assistants, tutors about 500 students a year. Rates are $4 an hour for private work, $2.50 for class reviews. Tutor Wolff's proudest boasts are that he has never run afoul of University Hall, that he can tutor a great number of advanced courses himself, that he numbers among his clients Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., and his brother John...
...Hitler. In the U. S. he has continued his biting attack against war and fascism, is proud of his suburban house, his two sons, Peter, 10, and six-year-old Martin who expects to be a comic-strip artist (see cut), his little coupe, his U. S. clothes, proudest of all of his electric icebox...
...past summer, far from appearing in every game, he has appeared in a mere 42. To students of pitching, however, the 42 might well be worth all of Gehrig's 1,800. Almost every one has been a pitching masterpiece. In Pitcher Hubbell's proudest record there is less than one game for every 100 of First-Baseman Gehrig's, but the record is not, on that account, the less impressive. In the long history of organized baseball, until last week only seven pitchers (Rowe, Grove, Wood, Johnson, Marquard, Keefe, Radbourne) had ever been able...
...again rode the field at Manassas. He was lean, Kentucky-born Major Stonewall Jackson of the 12th U. S. Infantry, no kin to his famed namesake, commanding a "Confederate" force of 1,000 Army men and R.O.T.C. boys in a re-enactment of one of the South's proudest battles. A thousand Marines from Quantico, in special blue fatigue uniforms, took the part of Union troops...
...Proudest boast of Crystal City, Tex. (pop. 6,609) is spinach. Last week, as part of the State's centennial celebration, Crystal City climaxed its pageant depicting "Texas under Six Flags" by ceremoniously enthroning its dark, pert Virginia Speedy, proclaiming her Queen of Spinach. Claiming to be roughage capital of the world, Crystal City last fortnight shipped 206 carloads of spinach, a record for the season...