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...about the death of Jewish friends. Often she saw "rows of good, innocent people accompanied by crying children [walk] on and on . . . bullied and knocked about until they almost drop." With appalling prescience she wrote that "there is nothing we can do but wait as calmly as we can till the misery comes to an end. Jews and Christians wait, the whole earth waits; and there are many who wait for death." When her pen fell into the fire, she wrote that it "has been cremated...
...Blue on Soldiers Field. The freshmen joined the rally, cheered the final practice, and heeded the warning that "any man whose tickets are sold at a premium will be blacklisted." Hard-plunging Yale backs gave the visitors a 13 to 0 win in the driving rain. Hopelessly cheering till the last play, the man of '27 helped form a soggy 'H' with red and white handker-chiefs, tried lighting a Melachrino, took another nip at his pocket flash, and snuggled deeper into his raccoon coat. Afterwards he took his date to see the smash hit of the day, John Galsworthy...
...Square tutoring schools would be just the thing. Still Widow Nolan's did a flourishing business and a New York firm succeeded in smuggling printed lecture notes--ostensibly designed for adult education--past the watchful deans. The class of '27 weathered the storm and breathed easily till the results came...
...divorced person. Actually, the Assembly had meant to strengthen the rule by requiring pastors to assure themselves of the person's "penitence for past sin and failure" (TIME, June 2), forgot to write the one-year rule into the revised provision. The Assembly will have to wait till next year to redress its mistake...
...half-dozen top pianists in the world, but he is understandably chary about playing on U.S. soil. The last time he tried it, in Manhattan, he was met with picket lines and cries of "Nazi!" and the Justice Department asked him to postpone his concert till it investigated him (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949). Gieseking flew back to Europe in a huff. In Honolulu this week, 5,000 miles from Manhattan, Pianist Gieseking turned up again for a concert on U.S. territory. Almost the only ripple was the ripple of the applause...