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...Freshman squad have participated in the two Boston invitation meets this season, the competition in these games was of such high calibre that the 1932 runners were completely outclassed. The relay team, however, has performed very creditably, losing its first race to the Holy Cross Freshman by a scant margin, and finishing 10 yards ahead of the same group in the second meeting with them last Saturday...
...daily emptier. Originally the C. F. R. F. appealed-and is still appealing - for $10,000,000 - less than $1 for each hungry Chinese. Some months ago General James G. Harbord, President of the Radio Corporation of America, resigned as Chairman of the Fund-which has now collected a scant $300,000. Last week General Harbord's successor, the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches was laboring with but indifferent success to recognize the China Famine Relief Fund Inc. and collect the still lacking $9,700,000. Thousands and almost certainly millions...
...made the pink front page of the New York Evening "pono-") Graphic. The photograph showed her lolling in bed, clad in scant, fluffy negligee, with a sad but inviting expression on her face. This happened last week...
...During the Chinese Revolutionary War, recently won by the Chinese Nationalists, a Japanese interventionary force occupied Shantung ''to protect the lives and property of Japanese colonists" and has remained in occupation ever since. With scant or manufactured provocation, this Japanese force attacked a Nationalist Army at Tsinan, the Capital of Shantung (TIME, May 14), thus seriously embarrassing for a time the eventually victorious. Nationalist offensive...
...five days Schubert requiems were held in Vienna, Schubert symphonies played in the concert halls, Schubert songs sung in schools, over the radio. Outstanding was the visit to the grave by Austrian officials and ten German mayors, the unveiling of a fountain in his memory. Vienna paid Schubert scant notice when he lived. Now, 100 years dead, he is indeed...