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...crowd of corpses marked the highest tide of the Confederate invasion of the North, because it is still the best-preserved battlefield in the U. S., and finally because Abraham Lincoln made a speech there, Gettysburg remains a famed landmark in U. S. history. The story of that three-day battle between Lee's veterans and Meade's Army of the Potomac has been told many & many a time since 1863 without growing older in the telling. Author Kantor's version, an attempt to describe the battle as it might have appeared to a noncombatant native...
...Haven, Conn., March 1--Yale's crushing defeat at the hands of the Crimson skaters was just another slump for the Elis, and after a three-day lay-off, they are back at practice in good spirits for the second game of the series. Tired from the strenuous Princeton game the Wednesday before, the Blue went on the ice a comparatively dead team, to fall before the onslaught of an inspired Cantab sextet. However, such a rest as the players are now taking, has had wonderful effect heretofore, and a rejuvenated outfit ought to give Harvard a tough time...
...call to college students all over the country to participate in a three-day conference in Washington to decide on whether a stand must be taken by them on political affairs, has been broadcast by nearly a score of student organizations. The conference will be held during the Christmas vacation, beginning Friday, December 29. Included among the sponsors are the Intercollegiate League for Industrial Democracy, the National Student Federation of America, the International Student Service, the National Student League, the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council, the League of Nations Association, the American Student Union, the Student Division of the Y.M.C.A., the Student...
...Knoedler & Co. who acquired the "Annunciation," reputedly for Andrew Mellon, finally after years of secret conferences in London, Paris, Berlin closed the Metropolitan's diptych deal. What he paid neither the Metropolitan, Knoedler & Co. nor the Soviet Government would say. Three hundred years ago the acquisition of such treasure would have been just cause for a three-day civic celebration. It did cause Manhattan art critics to launch columns of the most florid writing since the death of James Gibbons Huneker. Excerpts : Edward Alden Jewell (Times) : "Yet if the Crucifixion be esteemed a truly inspired example of the Flemish...
Havana settled down. Lurid stories of massacre, revolution and Negro uprisings continued to filter in to the capital from down the island. Investigating these New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Tom Pettey took a three-day motor trip into the interior, found little evidence. Day after his return revolvers and rifles were cracking in Havana, but the shots were fired in the air. By a single blanket decree the Government of small Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes declared the Machado administration and all its acts since May 1929 unconstitutional, wiped out the constitutional reforms of 1928 by which...