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Yale fraternity leaders, two days after Alumni Day, signed a pledge rigorously to abstain from "packing"?i. e. signing up their prospective members before the annual official calling week???a perennial campus scandal. The Yale Daily News pointed out that the fraternities did well to sign a pledge: one false step might "consign them to unenviable and irreconcilable doom...
...Labor Day, New York, Philadelphia & Washington Airways established "plane every hour" service (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week???the third week of operation?the company carried 1,202 passengers, an average of 172 per day (among them: Chilean Ambassador Don Carlos Davila, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, a baby wildcat, presidents of seven corporations, two infants in arms). Proudly, officials of the company compared that with the latest available average of all air lines operating across the English Channel? 118 per day. Traffic for the week was 65% of capacity...
Tearing the bride (symbolically) from the bridegroom's arms is a merry old Argentine custom. Weddings wait not even on revolutions. In Buenos Aires last week???while the conquering revolutionist General Jos� Francisco Uriburu was taking his oath as Provisional President ("by God, our Father, and the evangelical saints")?a smart wedding party feasted on champagne, prepared to "tear" the bride. Consequences were historic, bloody...
...love-making agent communicated with Manhattan, making charges. Last week???result of his efforts?Examiners Samuel Stansfield and William F. Gilroy were indicted by a Federal grand jury on two counts: conspiring to defraud the Government, accepting bribes. Also indicted last week were customs brokers and a truckman involved in the conspiracy. Previously indicted, sentenced to Atlanta, were Paul Rabkin and Joseph Y Perelman, onetime Superfine Watch Co. partners, by questioning whom Federal Judge Henry Warren Goddard hopes to arrest more of their associates. Last week he told them: "I don't believe your story. Both of you men have...
...nine U. S. Presbyterian bodies, the three largest held annual conferences last week???Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (northern, largest) in Cincinnati; Presbyterian Church in the United States (southern, next largest) at Charlottesville, Va.; United Presbyterian Church of North America (middle western) in Des Moines. The imminence of the 1900th Pentecost (June 8) made general church union a prayed-for but no more practical topic than usual at each one of these meetings. Although the Presbyterians have been an exceedingly divisive denomination, most of them have approved and adhere to the general council of the Presbyterian...