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...Virgin Islands, whither President Hoover was to go this week, got a new civil governor last week. The little minesweeper Grebe carried Dr. Paul M. Pearson, like the President a Quaker, into the harbor of St. Thomas while a Marine detachment shot off a 17-gun salute. The black population with its 5% sprinkling of whites massed in Emancipation Park to watch Governor Pearson take the oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department...
King Zog of Albania, in Vienna whither he had gone, he had announced, to get himself denicotinized. He was warily emerging from Vienna's opera house (Pagliacci). On his arm was a proud dancing girl, a blonde, called "Baroness" Francisco von Janko, who later explained: "The King has forbidden me to talk about our friendship. But I can say he has been extraordinarily kind to me. He is wonderful, and a great cavalier. . . ." As they reached the theatre's main exit two lurking Albanian youths popped nine pistol shots at the King. They killed King Zog's adjutant Mayor Lash...
Passenger. In a Tri-State Airways plane enroute to Detroit, James Thomas Mangan, Chicago adman, leaped from his seat, grappled with the pilot, scattered money to the wind, had to be restrained by other passengers from jumping out. At a Detroit hospital, whither he was taken, physicians talked of derangement by "airsickeness...
...trouble in the second case, too, is that the students have a restricted point of view when they see their school. The university to them becomes an institution which is in the same place every day, rain or shine, which is a good or bad place, depending on whither the student passes of flunks a course, and which loses most of its glamor and color because of years of intimacy with it. For just these reasons, many students at Boston University have an inferiority complex...
...large, securely financed carefully directed institutions. Professor Ewing thinks the U. S. is far from being properly mobilized for its cancer war. He wants mightier weapons than any now available - six cancer research institutions each endowed with $10,000,000. He would have them scattered across the country, fortresses whither crusaders might rally, whence they might sally...