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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several years various undergraduates have voiced the need of some sort of guide service to operate in the summer when tourists from all over the country stop off at Cambridge, to see the glass flowers and John Harvard's statue. Last summer a guide service was imperative, and it served so well that the University has seen fit to arrange for its continuance again in a modified form...
...such Catholic Passion Plays as the Union City production would have noticed several striking differences at Zion. To begin with, Zion's Passion Play is not strictly a Passion Play, i. e., it does not concern itself solely with the agony and death of Christ, but is a sort of theatrical biography of The Savior, beginning with the Sermon on the Mount and concluding, unconventionally, with the spectacular, if mechanically precarious Ascension. Mary, Mother of Jesus, instead of being young and comely, is white-haired, stout and comely as played by Blanche Kessler, telephone operator in the Zion Administration...
Sweepstakes winners are miserable simpletons. Lottery winners of any sort make good newspaper copy. Simpleton winners make even better copy. Last week in New York, which was obviously the place most concerned about Ireland's Sweepstakes and England's horse race, the doings of Sweepstakes winners were recorded by the press with diligence and gusto, as were the doings of British Sidney Freeman of the London bookmakers firm of Douglas Stuart, Ltd. ("Duggie"), who visits the U. S. three times a year, achieves a neat profit for his firm by buying an interest in potentially valuable sweepstakes tickets...
...spindly sort, he had once been threatened with tuberculosis, knew there was small danger of his being chosen as an A-1 specimen. In 1918 he was finally called up, drafted into a Labor Battalion. One night of that was enough for Noel. He pulled wires, got transferred to the Artists' Rifles...
...Tories who like to chuckle over their cigars, Eric Linklater is the right sort of company. His Juan in America (TIME, May 4, 1931), a clever but kindly satire on the U. S., tickled many a reader pink...