Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves him" which drives a student to tutoring schools, according to one letter. A father bemoans the fact that a professor refused his Freshman son needed aid, forcing him to a tutoring school. Two Freshmen accuse the University of ignoring the problem which first year men meet in organizing their work and in facing an entirely new system. Others lambaste excessive and dull reading lists...
...dressed women, sporting a wool-like suit and sweater made of skim milk, brought 70 dresses synthesized from milk, wood, reeds, to be shown at the Fair's Italian Pavilion. Attending the dedication of the "Roadway of Tomorrow" at the Ford Motor Co. building were Henry Ford, 75, Son Edsel Bryant Ford, 45, and Grandson Henry Ford II, 22, a Yale junior. Keynoted Ford I: "Great things are ahead...
...agents, buy an ancient jalopy for $75 from racketeers, head out on Highway 66 for the land of plenty promised in a come-on California handbill. With them - the 13th passenger -goes lanky, philosophizing Preacher Casy, hillbilly Moses turned rustic socialist. Hero of the Joads is tall, homely son Tom, a paroled convict. Heroine is Ma Joad, strong, patient, dreaming of "a white house with oranges growin' around...
Last week William Lyon Phelps's Autobiography told the whole amazing story, from his happy, athletic childhood as a New Haven Baptist preacher's son to the latest Yale football team-a personal history whose like will probably not be lived again in the U. S. A giant, discursive volume, it reprints copiously from Billy Phelps's books and "As I Like It" column in Scribner's, contains random commentaries on everything from Browning to blowing smoke rings. Its main bulk is given over to his many letters from famed writers, to his reminiscences...
CHILDREN OF GUERNICA - Hermann Kesten-Alliance ($2.50). On April 26, 1937, a row comes to a head in the large Espinosa family of Guernica, Spain; Uncle Pablo, the black sheep, mocks his kindly brother for his liberalism in the civil war; son and daughter are innocently involved in the murder of an anarchist leader; Father Espinosa cannot sell his chemist's shop and escape to France. German bombers sailing overhead end the family row and the Basque city of Guernica at the same time. Young Carlos escapes to Paris where he tells his powerful, grim story to German refugee...