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...only requirements for a court are a flat surface and plenty of headroom, make armories the appropriate place for badminton. Last week's tournament was held in that of the Naval Reserve. Before the tournament started, officials debated whether or not to accept the entry of Hock Sim Ong, Malay post-graduate student at the University of California who learned badminton when he went to Cambridge on a British Government scholarship. Before it was over, four other contestants had good cause to wish the officials had rejected it because Hock Sim Ong had beaten them with discouraging ease...
Possessively proud of their London Lord Mayor, Vancouverites reluctantly granted Toronto's request for a loan of him next month. But when Seattle in the U. S. asked for the London Lord Mayor, the Vancouver Sim shrieked: "No, no, a thousand times no! The nerve of them! The colossal gall! The effrontery of it. Seattle actually wants Vancouver to send the Lord Mayor of London down there ... so they can have a look at him without coming up to Vancouver...
...signal success in its determined campaign to boycott German products. But Jew and Gentile Philharmonic subscribers alike agreed that the orchestra's directors had been ill-advised to invite Herr Furtwängler in the first place. Practical, old Critic William J. Henderson of the New York Sim called attention to the fact that at least one-half the Philharmonic's patrons are Jews. Said...
...Officially Cornell, Columbia, Harvard accepted without controversy. But the Heidelberg invitations soon raised a full-sized rumpus among undergraduates, alumni, faculty members. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, cruising in the Caribbean, heard that liberal students were up in arms against Columbia's acceptance. In the Cornell Sim Historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon, "a 101% Aryan," looked into his Alma Mater's past, doubted "that Hitler's bright boys would care to associate with representatives of a university founded by that eminently broad-minded Quaker, Ezra Cornell...
...been publicly assured by the President of reappointment. Under the new setup he will change his title to "chairman." Two members of the Board, besides Mr. Eccles, have been added to it by President Roosevelt: John Jacob Thomas, 66, Nebraska farmer-lawyer and Democratic politician; Menc S. Szymczak (pronounced Sim-chak), 41, who was Comptroller of Chicago under the late Mayor Anton Cermak. If either of them has White House assurances of reappointment, he is keeping the fact strictly to himself...