Word: relays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are generally more bores than raconteurs. Historian Ralph Roeder is no bore. His crowded subject, the climax of the Italian Renaissance (1494-1530), could easily trip and entangle a pedestrian fact-plodder, but Author Roeder slips adroitly through its thickets, his eye always on one of his relay of four guides (Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Aretino). Not a portrait of some composite Renaissance man but four overlapping biographies of typical men of the time, The Man of the Renaissance is one of the solidest choices yet made by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Readers will not get quite...
...debate or dalliance. That departure in governmental publicity, tried in Chile but abandoned because it was too boring (TIME, April 3), would have to be sanctioned by act of Congress. Columbia News Service asked for gallery seats for three Columbia reporters who would take notes like any correspondents and relay the day's doings on the legislative floors via microphone. Hotly to the ramparts leaped Editor & Publisher with an editorial entitled ''The Radio Menace." Excerpt: "Radio broadcasting in this country is not entitled to press privileges because it is not a free institution-it is a government...
...present there is not enough reliable material to make a full strength team with sufficient spares and a strong reserve to fill out the relay, Coach Ulen said...
...Concord was appointed as the Junior in charge of Freshman affairs, with Shaun Kelly, Jr. '36 of Richmond, as his assistant. Both men were presidents of their respective classes in their Freshman years, and both are now members of the Council. Bowditch is a member of the Varsity relay track team, while Kelly is a first-string end on the football team. They will manage the Freshman class elections and cooperate with the Freshman Union Committee in supervising the activities of the class...
...Four-plane relay race, Montreal Light Aeroplane Club v. U. S. flying clubs...