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...Thirteen men were chosen last night as members of the Union Committee to direct the activities of the Yardlings, until the election of the Smoker and Jubliee Committees next spring...
...just over six years since Benny Goodman brought a clarinet and thirteen musicians into a stodgy Chicago hotel to open a brief engagement wangled for him by an astute manager. Eight months later he was still packing them in on the same spot, "The Music Goes 'Round" was already out of the public ear for good, and the diluted jazz called swing was just beginning a successful job of artificial respiration on a music business which was on the verge of going down for the third time in the high seas of the depression...
Three thousand, five hundred and thirteen undergraduates had registered in the University for the coming year when Memorial Hall closed its doors last night at the end of the third day of registration...
...After seven months' warning, and over the shrill protest of Japanese Ambassador Itaso Ishii, Brazil suppressed all foreign-language newspapers. Thirteen were German, two Italian, three Japanese, one Spanish, six English, eight Arabic, two Jewish, one Polish, one Hungarian...
Carl Sandburg (at University of North Carolina): "A famous aviator has quit flying and taken to talking. Thirteen years ago his picture was hung on college walls, a symbol of youth ready to risk and adventure for the sake of great achievement. Now all of a sudden that same daring aviator has begun to talk the language of comfort and safety first and of breakfast at home with mother...