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Buck Anderson, who stroked the second place boat last fall, will be favored again to be up among the leaders, with Wagner's crew looked for to push the Californian to the limit. Ewing Walker, Sam Goddard, and Bob Fowler form the nucleus of Anderson's eight, while Captain Shem Gray and Bruce Pirnie give the added zip to Wagner's boatload. Everett Henry, Brown, 3rd, will weigh down the stern of the Anderson octet...
Rabbi Schneersohn is head of a Hasidic sect (150,000 in the U. S.) called the Habad. Hasidism is the faith which Baal Shem Tob, Polish mystic and healer of the 18th Century, offered to downtrodden Jews who had turned away from the dogmatic formalism of their rabbis. The Hasid sang, danced, took joy in his faith, felt himself close to God. At his worst a dreamy, soft-handed, mystical fellow, the Hasid became the butt of many an Eastern European joke. After the time of Baal Shem Tob there arose a Habad ("rational") Hasidism, which urged...
Przemy?l: shem-ishl...
...field-mice bawk talk. Ho! Are you not gone ahome? What Thorn Malone? Can't hear with bawk of bats, all thim liffeying waters of. Ho, talk save us! My foos won't moos. I feel as old as yonder elm. A tale told of Shaun or Shem? All Livia's daughter-sons. Dark hawks hear us. Night! Night! My ho head halls. I feel as heavy as yonder stone. Tell me of John or Shaun? Who were Shem and Shaun the living sons or daughters of? Night now! Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! Night...
...When Shem disappeared, he was two years old. As a race horse he would now be worthless but last week Horse Show rumor said that Shem, now 7, a handsome chestnut gelding with two white legs, had been exhibited in a green hunter class under an assumed name, spirited away when recognized by a prospective buyer to whom he had been offered as a bargain...