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Three men were elected to the Board of Directors, which also includes the officers. They are: Whedon Johnson '40, Daniel S. Roosevelt '40, and Henry S. Stone '38. Of the 35 flyers in the Club, the oldest of its kind in America, 20 are licensed pilots. During the coming summer the Club will compete abroad...
...Harding 21 11 32 Mechem 12 8 20 Pope 13 3 16 Roberts 7 9 16 Hicks 5 8 13 Cutter 8 4 12 Patrick 3 5 8 Allen 5 3 8 Ecker 4 4 8 Carr 3 3 6 Jameson 2 1 3 Emerson 0 1 1 Stone 0 0 0 Callaway 0 0 0 Totals...
What the Vatican is to Catholics, the Ganges to Hindus and Fujiyama to Japanese, a small black meteor head-high in the southeast corner of a rough stone building called the Kaaba in Mecca is to Mohammedans. Every Moslem plans someday to make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to kiss this most sacred of all objects, the Black Stone. On camel, burro, foot and occasionally hands & knees, some 70,000 devotees annually make the hajj over the desert sands to Mecca. Last week, fat, wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey...
Ancient though it is, Rome got around to building a subway for the first time only last week when Benito Mussolini swung a pickax with such vigor that he cracked a paving stone in the Piazza Bocca della Verità. Five thousand Fascist workmen are to build the four miles of subway in four years, by that time will probably be as proud as the overpropagandized Red toilers in Moscow who through Intourist interpreters ask travelers: "Is it not wonderful that the Soviet form of State has enabled us to build a subway? You have no subway...
...since it was in blueprints 40 years ago. Tall, shy, scholarly Dean Bratenahl knows more about cathedral traditions than anyone else in the U. S., for years chairmanned the Washington Cathedral's building committee, was its official iconographer in charge of steeping its fabric of glass, wood and stone in mystic symbolism...