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From Montreal last week the Groenland-Wal flew to Ottawa, headed toward Detroit. She arrived there at the end of a towrope after being forced down on Lake St. Clair by a broken pump. After visiting Chicago, the ship's next destination was the Pacific Coast. Despite some-what half-hearted denials by Capt. von Gronau, it appeared certain that he would carry on along the approximate route flown last year by the Lindberghs from Alaska to Siberia, the Kuvile Islands, Tokyo, that he would continue around the world to home...
...Jersey is currently considering a some-what looser federation of all its state institutions (Rutgers University, Newark College of Engineering, Newark Technical School, New Jersey College for Women...
...composed of a series of episodes, almost short stories, of the youth of one Roger Baum during the last decade. First at a preparatory school, then in a stained glass works, subsequently in London and Paris, at college, and in the country, he meets life in various forms and is some-what passively affected by it. He is not a very real character; he does not act, but is merely acted upon...
Giving special attention to the development of the B and C teams, Coach Casey put the University football squad through the first strenuous workout of the week yesterday. The major emphasis of the afternoon's practice was placed on fundamentals since these were some-what ragged in the final quarter of last Saturday's game. Tackling in particular was stressed, for the deficiency was most evident in that department...
...wages of Soviet locomotive drivers and other skilled proletarians will be raised, Stalin indicated, above the wage level of unskilled proletarians and despised white collar yes-men. Up to last week the theory of Soviet wage scales (varied some-what in practice) was approximate wage equality between the skilled and the unskilled. With a mighty tug Stalin seemed to shift the whole Soviet wage structure ?in a direction seemingly opposite to Communism...