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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real challengers in the U. S. But last year Coach Schniebs resigned, and a 25-year-old Swiss named Walter Prager was imported to succeed him. Skimeister Prager's recommendations consisted of a trunkful of important European skiing-championship awards, including the downhill world championship (1933). He took over Dartmouth's winter activities quietly, confident he could do as good a job as his predecessor. Last week Coach Prager was sure enough of himself to divide his ski squad into two six-man teams to meet two important challenges, east and west...
...skiing what Dartmouth is to eastern skiing. When Dick Durrance. generally recognized as the best skier in the U. S., sprained his ankle making a practice run last week. Coach Prager was apprehensive. But his other five skiers went on to make a clean sweep of the meet. Dartmouth took the first five places in the cross-country race, and the first four places in both the downhill and the slalom events. Dartmouth's skiers, under Skimeister Prager, remained as invincible as they ever were under Skimeister Schniebs...
Last week, on approximately the 162nd anniversary of this Lutheran hero's greatest sermon, the United Lutheran Church in America took to the radio to honor him and itself, the date (January 1) being also the 20th anniversary of this largest U. S. Lutheran body (1,523,022 members), which was formed by merging three of the many scattered groups which make up U. S. Lutheranism. Listening in on NBC's Red network, Lutherans heard Muhlenberg's recruiting sermon dramatized, heard his connection with "The Cradle of the Nation" glorified by Virginia's Governor George Campbell...
...right & left reports, Soviet China seemed less a geographical and political reality than a wandering country like Swift's floating Laputa. At one time this nomad-land was located in Hunan Province in the interior, then in Kiangsi in southeast China. When Chiang Kai-shek's army took Juichin, its capital, in 1934, Soviet China disappeared, only to pop up a year later in the northwest. A comparable feat would have been for Mexican revolutionists, defeated in Yucatan, to move their capital to British Columbia-except that the Mexicans would have far better roads for their anabasis...
...peasant who turned classical scholar, organized the Communist Party in China, and became as well-known to Chinese as Chiang Kai-shek when Chiang Kai-shek put a price of $250,000 on his head. Evenings, perched on a stool inside Mao's solid-stone hut, Snow slowly took down Mao's patiently dictated autobiography. Incorporated into Red Star Over China, it makes a valuable document in its own right. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists in 1927, Mao organized the Soviet in Hunan Province. Despite the internal feuds and contradictory policies of the Comintern...