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...Whiteby, N. Y., its name was to be "Prairie College." When a charter was issued it was called "Knox Labor College." Today it is Knox College at , Ill., 100 years old in June. Though he is serving in that capacity, Knox's Centennial the formal occasion for inaugurating its 11th , Dr. Carter Davidson, 32, Kentucky born, recently associate professor in English at College (Minnesota...
...York's board was only partly right. The original of Santa Claus was St. Nicholas of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, of whom little is known save that he was a 4th Century bishop. In the 11th Century, Italians of Bari stole his body, built a basilica about it, attributed to the saint many a miracle. St. Nicholas became the patron of Russia, Greece, the Kingdom of Naples, Sicily, Lorraine, Limerick, of children, pawnbrokers, mariners, coopers, brewers. Children came to expect secret gifts from St. Nicholas on the eve of his feast (Dec. 6). This far from notable bishop...
Graceful, great-nosed John Gielgud had chosen for the background of his fine impersonation some rather sombre, common place sets and costumes of Stuart England. Equally commonplace is the gaudier Howard mise en scène which represents 11th Century Denmark. The two productions, however, are separated by more than five centuries of decorating history...
...little more than a year ago the cotton market took a terrific one-day tumble. Prices dropped nearly $10 per bale in a few hours. Among the many to whom the "March 11th" break caused deep anguish was South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith, self-appointed chamberlain to King Cotton. Forthwith, "Cotton Ed" Smith started an investigation which did not make the front page until a year later...
...building headquarters for officials, a mile bobsled run, an artificial ice rink, a huge ski stadium, a ski jump so tall it makes the town's old one look like a mink-slide. All these preparations were keyed to the widespread German belief that the 11th Olympiad, which reaches its climax next summer in Berlin, was to be a rare chance to win back some of the international goodwill lost during three years of Naziism. The whole country had been carefully primed to play the perfect host to the visiting athletes from 28 nations, who, Germans fondly hoped, would...