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Surveying his Vassar domain, Henry Noble MacCracken, 53, can say: "Under favorable conditions and proper guidance we have found the American student to be characterized by self-control, reliability, persistence and tolerance." His tolerant charges in turn watch him play tennis with freshmen, dance with sophomores, romp in the annual costume baseball game between students & faculty, dress up to take the part of an ancient Greek citizen or Hindu prince in a college play-and find him pre-eminently worthy of respect, admiration, affection...
...devotional exercises, interspersed with a rollicking theme hymn called "Happy Am I," have become familiar to many a U. S. radio listener during the past year. Broadcast from Washington over the CBS network every Saturday night, the Church of God of Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux is a lively Negro romp, noisy and syncopated as some white folks believe all black worship should be. Last week for the first time Elder Michaux took his choir of 40 and his jazz orchestra of ten out of Washington to capitalize their fame. For his first appearance he chose stolid Philadelphia...
...daily life. Maintaining the burning interest in all varieties of subjects which has caused him to write books on everything from Hypnotism and Suicide to Marxism and the problem of small European nations, he still reads voluminously in four languages. He loves a brisk canter on horseback, or a romp with his small grandsons, children of Charles Revilliod, who only a few years ago used to play naked as jays in the gardens of the presidential summer palace near Prague. Receiving reporters last week Grandfather Masaryk admitted that Willa Gather was his favorite author and added...
...Kentucky Derby in Louisville last week, fire broke out in stables U and W at Churchill Downs. The barns were destroyed, a few horses ran wild in the infield, but none of the 19 high-strung Derby entries was much disturbed. Throughout the night, Derby guests continued their yearly romp, the less restrained firing the annual barrage of empty bottles into the court of the Brown Hotel in spite of the fact that Kentucky is now wet and liquor is sold by the glass. Next morning light showers fell, sending the odds down on long-shot mudders. By lunch time...
...Keith's--"It Happened One Night." Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable romp about on a night bus until . . . the inevitable. Nevertheless recommended for colorless, but pleasant acting by Miss Colbert, and for the amusing dialogue...