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Shelling of Madrid, resumed fortnight ago after a six weeks' respite, continued heavy, an apparent prelude to another attack on the city. Bombers and pursuit planes of both sides were busy raiding concentration points, troop trains and munitions dumps, shadow-boxing violently to try to find out who was trying to do what, where. A sign that at least the Moorish reserves of El Caudillo Franco were beginning to run low came from Algeciras last week, where 500 bewildered boys were unloaded from the transport Cindad de Algeciras. None of them appeared to be more than 13 years...
...University has pursued a policy of not so salutary neglect toward cager fledglings who troop into the Union with the hope of continuing careers started in high school debating. The enthusiasm of well attended meetings of the Union Debating Society dissipates before the University's stony refusal either to appropriate money for an adequate coaching staff for upperclassmen, or to assign Public Speaking instructors to a task essentially within their province. Thus the traditional coma of Harvard debating is due not to lack of undergraduate interest, but to official indifference...
Since it is also possible to hire Western Union boys for miscellaneous errands, it seems surprising that there is not a troop of them mounting the steps of Widener at about 8:58 o'clock every morning while the borrower of the book slumbers on in peace...
...stockholders in the Santa Anita racetrack. Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Mrs. Zeppo Marx and many another own horses. Clark Gable used to own one named Beverly Hills. Victor McLaglen (see p. 40) is Colonel of the Victor McLaglen Light Horse Troop, whose 750 members finance their maneuvers partly by promoting rodeos and midget auto races. Ralph Bellamy and Charles Farrell own the Racquet Club at Palm Springs. Minor promoters include Johnny Weissmuller (the paddle-board concession at Catalina Island) and Errol Flynn (six day bicycle races...
...country is full of preparations for war; troop trains are busy carrying men to the ports for embarkation to Shanghai and the northern war zone, with the railway congestion particularly noticeable in the vicinity of Kobe and Osaka. Long trains of supplies, with some flat cars disclosing the sinister shapes of guns under concealing covers, are drawn up on the tracks in every important station. At every station, no matter how small whenever a group of soldiers departs, there is a group of people singing, cheering, and waving flags to give them a royal send off. These demonstrations are found...