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...along the banks of the Hudson River, ice boats yielded to river ice breakers, and ice yachting waned in the East except at such centres as New Jersey's Shrewsbury River, Lakes Hopatcong and Greenwood, the Mystic Lakes in Massachusetts, Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York. In Scandinavian Minnesota,* in Wisconsin and Michigan, ice yachting has flourished. The Northwestern Ice Yachting Association's classifications of ice boats are used nationally and their annual regatta, held last 'week on Lake Pewaukee, just west of Milwaukee, is the nearest thing to national ice boat championships...
...convicted the late Racketeer Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer if he had been allowed to conduct his prosecution in 1935; Murray Irwin Gurfein, 30, brainy onetime Editor of Harvard's Law Review; Barent Ten Eyck, 34 only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers...
Solid and sober as the great Martin Luther looked is U. S. Lutheranism, the intensely individualist faith of many a farmer and small-towner, many a Scandinavian and German-American who still speaks the European tongue of his forebears. Because of the sect's diffuse organization, there is as yet no great single U. S. Lutheran Church whose head might speak with the authority of a Catholic archbishop. Biggest Lutheran body in U. S. is the United Lutheran Church, formed in 1918 of three smaller bodies and today embracing 34 state synods, 4,000 churches...
...Scandinavians: In Rockford, Ill., he noted the Swedish population's celebration of Leif Ericson Day, cried: "The descendants of the Scandinavian people have not lost in a thousand years the spirit and fortitude which Leif Ericson so well demonstrated...
...course--Icelandic Literature and All That--used to be known as Scandinavian 2 but for some unaccountable reason has had its number changed this year...