Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Easter recess, and M. P.s had leisure to read other pertinent comments on Adolf Hitler made last week by his boyhood friend, Fritz Grunscheder, today working in a New Britain, Conn, brewery. Said Mr. Grunscheder: "I can remember lots of times when we would call Adolf over and tell him he could come with us to where there were some good apples to be snitched. But Adolf could never come. His father worked for the Government and it would be bad if he got caught. It was as if he had to set an example. Lots of things like that...
...journalistic hands in Rome can always tell the difference between a genuine Italian demonstration and one of organized "spontaneity." In the latter case each demonstrator has to bring to the scene a card which he received by mail, must give this to a Fascist Party official Censorship kills dispatches saying cards have been stamped, but last week Italian censors were delighted to pass cables in which correspondents vouched for the real enthusiasm of a huge Rome crowd screaming "CIANO! CIANO! CIANO...
...Detroit musician's three children, wide-eyed, curly-haired George Washington Lovett, 4½, has an uncanny memory. He can sing or hum 3,000 pieces of music from popular tunes to grand opera, can name and date all the U. S. Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also taught himself to read, write and use the typewriter, knows the Italian...
Some of the things that matter most to U. S. citizens-religion, politics, love, marriage, birth-are pretty largely ignored by U. S. formal education. Until 15 years ago no U. S. college had anything to tell its students about marriage. Today some 200 have...
...started the first college course in marriage was ruddy little Ernest Rutherford Groves, 60, University of North Carolina's famed sociologist. He has been married twice (his first wife died ), has four children. To tell others how to find happiness in marriage he has written 28 books (six of them with his second wife...