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From Naples aboard the Saturnia sailed tubby Air Sergeant Bruno Mussolini, 17, trim Air Second Lieutenant Vittorio Mussolini, 18, and baby-faced Air Captain Count Nobile Galeazzo Ciano, husband of the Premier's daughter and favorite child Edda. With these kin of the Dictator doing their bit, Cabinet members were informed that they are not exempt from answering when their military classes are called, will "fight as privates" unless previous war experience entitles them to higher rank...
...table in the second-floor study in a house in San Francisco last week rested a tiny object the size of a rice grain. Bishop Kenju Masuyama and two priests, their hands clasped, meditated before it, chanting softly in Japanese. The tiny pellet, they believed, was an authentic bit from the bones of Buddha,* only one in the U. S. Bishop Masuyama, head of the Buddhist Church in North America (12,000 members), got it in Siam last June from Prince Yinavara Siravadhana who took it from a Bangkok temple...
Brown should be a bit easier than some of the others on the list. Princeton, of course, will be about the best team in the country. A victory over it would be a miracle. As for the Elis, the old saying is "Never make a prediction about a Harvard-Yale game. The unexpected always happens." The most one can say is that is 1934 Yale's performance was a considerable surprise to the football world...
...small but significant idea, and retain it throughout his college career, he will have done well. No amount of teaching, no imposing array of facts, should lead a man to alter his fundamental outlook on life until he is convinced that his new view will serve him every bit as faithfully as the old. The fact that in the light of a single book or a single lecture he is unable to account rationally for beliefs held since childhood should not lead him to discard those beliefs overnight. All too many students have lost their bearings in academic wildernesses because...
Swart, pompous little Representative Hook housed himself, wife & daughters in Washington's swank, expensive Westchester Apartments last winter. Cried he, when the Hook family's extraordinary financial relations with the Government were publicized last week: "I'm not a bit ashamed! I'd rather have them that way, drawing honest relief from the Government, than become thieves. I have sup ported them all my life and I do not intend to do it again while other people are receiving relief...