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Near Berlin last week newsmen stood behind protecting steel walls, stoppered their ears and watched a small cannon-like device vomit gases with a nerve-shattering roar. Two minutes of the din was all they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...
Traditions, however, like the petticoats of the Mauve Decade, are apt to be occasionally cumbersome, and when they are discarded for more rational formulas of behavior, there is always a reactionary roar. Yale's new policy has its advantages and its drawbacks to Yale's opponents, but its eventual benefits to Yale are unquestioned. Under the old system, the Blue emerged from a hard tussle with the Tiger with only one week to prepare for its closing game with the Crimson. Granted that in Holy Cross, Harvard had an equally damaging opponent, the fact remains that recent Yale elevens have...
When Arthur Mastick Hyde ran a thriving Buick agency in Trenton. Mo. before the War, his interest in farms and farmers had been nominal. Pitched into the Governor's chair at Jefferson City by the Republican sweep of 1920 he made Missouri's farmers roar with rage, earned the epithet of "tax-eater" by his expensive road building program. President Hoover picked him for the Cabinet chiefly because he had once been a "Lowden man" but had got a divorce from the equalization fee. Mockingly Secretary Hyde's archfoe, onetime Democratic Senator James Reed, used to greet...
...Author. Out of the mouths of Wrodehouse's babes-about-town. his sucklings that roar at you like any Anglo-Indian colonel, have emerged for many a year babblings that have made their author's name a trademark for this kind of humor. Wodehouse fans regard his lyrics for the Oh!-musicomedies (Oh, Boy, Oh, Lady, Lady! Oh, My Dear!) as best of their kind since the late Sir William Schwenk Gilbert's. Wodehouse once wrote five librettos at the same time, for shows that appeared simultaneously. Baldish, florid-faced, 49, he lives in London, but last...
Down in New Haven the Ear of Young America harkens with Harkness back to an older Old World tradition. Three Reading Periods (stand and bow) are sufficient at least to blow the foam off a jugged brew. Three Reading Periods (roar from the pit) provide plenteous days to sink back into the Mediaeval and quaint Villonesque depravity. Against this melodrama. Harvard offers One Reading Period (now over) and the cheery blue dome of Lowell House reassuring the faithful that God's in his heaven and speaking to His Chosen The Vagabond endorses... and hibernates in the pure driven snow that...