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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of these visitors, however, matched in importance a group of 27 who descended in a body on Hyde Park one afternoon. For three long months of an important political campaign Franklin Roosevelt had not appeared before the public save in his full magisterial dignity as President of the U. S. In that non-partisan role he lost little if any campaigning advantage. Although he could not directly attack his political opponent, he could draw audiences, obtain free radio time, effectively expound his own political doctrines not as though seeking power but with the noble air of using his power...
Careful consideration of the athletic question during the beginning of the Freshman year will save a great deal of time and later inconvenience. The college offers excellent facilities in all branches of non-organized sports. Swimming sculling, handball; tennis, squash--all are extremely well coached and arranged with a view to the individuals. Under these conditions it is a small wonder that so many finally turn to these branches of athletics through the year, finding them, for one reason or another, more suited to the individual taste or ability...
...about his literary method. He writes and writes and writes, he makes lists of rivers, towns, railways, names, he burns with the desire to set down on paper the secrets of America. Sometimes it seems as though he just has to write, other times he can't write to save him. When he gets so many million words done he and Max Perkins sit down and make a book out of them...
...murder in the moonlight?" queries the preview. "Well, you'll find the answer in 'Moonlight Murder'." The reviewer did find the answer, and to save you all kinds of trouble and boredom, he'll tell you: it was murder, and in the moonlight...
...Then he suddenly found his stuff again, and now Old Ironpants is back in the regular lineup, and a star at that. I guess his trouble was, the first time in the league, that he was putting in long hours trying to save the country on the side and didn't realize that either task is a full-time job in itself...