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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disconnected and disjointed babble from the pen of a visionary Freshman, Harry Brown, rambles on for four long pages to come at last to the greatly enlightening closing statement, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I'm coming to be a man . . . " Jeffrey Fuller '38 contributes a well-written book review in the form of an essay, on Ernest J. Simmons' newly published work, "Pushkin." The article discusses the book from the point of view of its own content, and contains a criticism of Pushkin himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey of Flaws in House Plan Main Article of Interest in March Advocate | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Tonight the Student Union and the Teachers Union are presenting two well-known speakers, Andre Malraux, a French novelist, and Louis Fischer of the "Nation" in a review of the Spanish civil war. The acquisition of these men is, without question, an accomplishment. The program shows, at the same time, a regrettable lack of balance, for both are by reputation enthusiastic supporters of the loyalist government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEEP END | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...first time since it was formed in 1926, over 175 members of the naval branch of the College R.O.T.C. yesterday afternoon held a formal review before Naval officials and the Committee on Military and Naval Science and Tactics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC HAS NAVAL REVIEW BEFORE DEANS, BIGWIGS | 3/3/1937 | See Source »

...TIME, Feb. 1, your able book review editor passed up several fascinating books, chose for review a book about an erotic Russian musician whose chief claim to fame was he was homosexual. Yet on the same page was listed a book (but passed with scant attention) called Fifty Million Brothers by Reader's Digest's blue-pencil genius, Charles W. Ferguson. As a "Fergie" fan, I protest, not only at your slight to Fergie's book but your unfailing and sedulous attention to books with perversion themes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Name of Adolf Hitler's personal paper is Völkischer Beobachter which might be translated "Folksy Observer," and one of his pet projects is the Volkswagen or "Folksy Automobile." Last week Der Führer opened the 11h annual Berlin Auto Show with a spectacular review of 10,000 Nazis. Through cleared Berlin streets the greatest German racing drivers roared with flame-belching exhausts and brakes screaming as they took street corners in breakneck "skid-turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Just Folks | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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