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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swarthmore's smart President Frank Aydelotte has the special and delicate job of looking after 96 of the best young brains in the U. S.-the Rhodes Scholars. After war was declared last month, Dr. Aydelotte (U. S. secretary for the scholarships) lost no time in calling his precious charges home from Oxford (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week not only Dr. Aydelotte but a solicitous nation demonstrated how much it prized Rhodes scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rhodes Scholars | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Catholic aumƦniers, is Monsignor Maurice Sudour, Archdeacon of St. Denis, who gets a general's pay, wears a general's star. Ordinary chaplains have no rank, but a captain's pay, wear religious garb behind the lines, khaki at the front. By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aumƦniers and other front-line priests may hear confession, give extreme unction, sing mass at portable altars, at any time under any conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Aumoniers | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Pontiac introduces a new Torpedo eight this year to pep up its design, has restyled its Special six series with longer, lower hoods. Prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Chevrolet's 1940 series (Master Eighty-Five, Master De Luxe, Special De Luxe) are longer (by 4⅜ in.), wider, lower, bigger than any Chevrolet ever built. Prices: unannounced. Alligator-jaw hood locks automatically, unlocks only from the dashboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...away with the show, leaving the lavish sets sitting around without much to do. Bert Lahr may go rolling down through the annals of film history as an all-time high in Cowardly Lions. Even Judy Garland has accomplished the remarkable feat of being nice without being "sweet." A special order of orchids should go to Natalie Kalmus who handled the technicolor and nursed it one step further toward maturity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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