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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Made several years ago in Europe Slalom has German dialog in the rare moments when anyone speaks. Most of it is pixie pantomime, easily understood. The two ski teachers dominate the picture are on the screen almost all the time doing everything on skis from Christies to Geländesprünge with extraordinary skill Walter Riml is a ski teacher in the Tyrol Guzzi Lantschner comes of a famed skiing family, took second in the last Olympic slalom. Their complete mastery is pointed up both by their continual burlesque of normal ski technique and by the beauty...
Ghost stories are rare in contemporary fiction. But their traditional stage properties-creepy old houses, strange cries at night, creaking witches who mumble obscurely-are still standbys for romantic novelists who exclude the supernatural from their tales. Last week the Book-of-the-Month Club offered its members a weird, wild-eyed novel that has all the elements of a good ghost story except a ghost. To compensate for this deficiency, most of the large cast of characters who figure in Shining Scabbard are a shadowy and illusive folk, bearing so little resemblance to ordinary humans they might easily...
Lowell House, however, must share the spirit of congratulation with the rest of Harvard. Every Harvard man, in his own way, reflects once again upon an heritage enlarged by a man of great understanding and rare gifts. Each one pays tribute to a long, honorable, and useful life, now rewarded by peace and contemplation, still rich in friendly counsel and unbroken association with Harvard life...
Penalty for conviction on this rare charge is one to twelve months in jail, $100 to $1,000 fine. In Los Angeles, Dr. Townsend, not averse to publicity-making martyrdom, announced that he would go to jail before paying a fine. In Washington, legal authorities announced that he would probably have no choice, since a jail sentence would almost certainly accompany his conviction...
...Apparently the Government militia still is being fed adequately, but only a few crumbs are left from their mess table for the civilian populace. Potatoes, eggs and meat are rare delicacies that most civilians have not tasted for many weeks...