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Succinct Conservative. This same devotion to succinctness and the news distinguishes the century-old daily paper from which the Sunday Telegraph sprang. The Daily Telegraph, a listless, conservative has been of 84,000 circulation when Publisher Sir William Ewert Berry took it over in 1928, has surged to success on that very formula. By dropping the price of the paper to a penny, Berry put it within reach of Britain's tradesmen, tailored its contents to the middle class's conservative but aspiring tastes. Under Berry, the first Viscount Camrose, the Telegraph dispensed both news and editorial opinion...
There were also novelties in other extra-curricular activities which added to the confusion of that freshman year. Departing from the traditional political disinterestedness of American college students, several undergraduate political organizations sprang into existence on the Harvard campus and the elections of 1908--between Taft and Bryant--were followed with interest...
Copper-rich Northern Rhodesia supplies most of the federation's revenues. Racially, it is the pivotal state, lying between Nyasaland, which is almost all black and slated for black rule, and Southern Rhodesia, whose 215,000 white settlers intend to cling to power indefinitely. Macleod last week sprang a proposed new constitution on Northern Rhodesia's 73,000 whites and 2,280,000 blacks. As ingenious as it was complex, it was designed to give Africans an equal voice with the whites in government...
Miraculous Rabbis. The people of New Square are Hasidim, adherents of a Jewish mystical movement that sprang from the ghettos of eastern Europe in the 18th century in reaction against the rigid intellectual austerity of Diaspora Judaism. The Hasidim were orthodox in observing the law, but their special emphasis was on love and joy and they gathered around holy men, or zaddikim, whom they believed to have miraculous powers...
...Specialists in a soft, syncopated West African dance that sprang up some five years ago, notably in Nigeria and Ghana. No two dancers use the same step. The music is any rolling, happy tune, though calypso makes a good accompaniment...