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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan State's 140-lb. John Edward Bechtold. A resident of New York's Bronx, he returned almost unknown last week to his old stamping ground to win Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America's 5-mi. cross-country run. Judges, amazed at his unexpected victory, were further amazed that four of his teammates had also finished among the first eleven, had won the team title for the third straight year...
...fact that there is still a God in the heavens. . . . May your Episcopate succeed in fanning this tiny spark of divine ambition in the hearts of thousands of your followers that they, too, may follow you into the land where prejudice, greed, hatred, pride and fear are unknown-into the Kingdom of Heaven...
...unknown testimony of the two Victors and Francis will become public property for the first time since the assault. How conclusive it will be remains unknown. They are reported to have witnessed the attack...
...Claypool, he has advised his client to further her social aspirations by sponsoring an opera company. Mrs. Claypool gives $200,000 to the director of the company (Siegfried Rumann), who signs up famed Lassparri and his sweetheart, Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Meanwhile, by mistake, Groucho has signed an unknown tenor, Ricardo Baroni (Allan Jones), who also loves Rosa. Ricardo, his friend Chico, and Harpo, discharged valet of Lassparri, stow away in Groucho's trunk when the opera company sets out for New York from Milan. What follows in the course of one of the most complicated feature comedies ever photographed...
...description of "America on October 10, 1492," it gives a fresh account of the impact of the discovery on Europe, where in all ministries carefully-made plans were rendered irrelevant, where bewildering and unprecedented problems arose and where, in a haze of fantastic misconceptions, governments struggled for possession of unknown continents. Not a severe critic of Spain's colonial policy, Sociologist Means notes that serious attempts to develop humane methods of governing Indians were consistently made. Simple inexperience was often responsible for practices that later generations defined as brutal. Spaniards could not understand West Indian natives...