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Fair Stratagem. Telephone Operator Borissova in "Town N" was said by the Russians to have plugged in a call from a stranger in a phone booth. The stranger asked the location of some "communication enterprises." She said: "One moment please; I'll look up the information." She called the militia, who went to the booth, found a Nazi parachutist...
Bernhardt, Modjeska, Booth, Salvini, Joseph Jefferson once declaimed and strutted before Central City's miners and bonanza kings. When General Grant came to town, a street was paved with $12,000 worth of silver bricks. Then the end of the mining rush left Central City nearly deserted. Its resurrection began when descendants of the original builder gave the Opera House to the University of Denver. The theater was refurbished, its hickory chairs restored, and the curtain went up on Lillian Gish in Camille, designed and directed by Robert Edmond Jones...
...leave his Vals-les-Bains prison under heavy guard to visit his ailing 94-year-old mother for a few hours. ∙∙ Dr. Alexis Carrel, last reported detained in Occupied France, is now reported by Vichy to be studying malnutrition in Belgium. ∙∙ Salvationist General Evangeline Booth's niece, Colonel Mary Booth, was found in a detention camp in southern Germany...
Fundamentalism cropped up again last week when the Presbyterian General Assembly, meeting in St. Louis, voted down famed Modernist Henry Sloane Coffin for moderator, chose in his stead, by 461-to-404, Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, conservative pastor of America's second-largest Presbyterian church, Immanuel in Los Angeles...
Among the more recent graduates listed is Cleveland Amory '39, president of the CRIMSON while in College and recently with the Saturday Evening Post. He is now with the War Department in Washington, holding the rank of Second Lieutenant, which he earned in the ROTC. Kenneth L. Booth '39, outstanding tackle on the football team for three years, holds the rank of first Lieutenant in the Military Science Department here. Also of the same class, William L. Calfee, who was president of the Lampoon while at College, is in the same section as Amory in the War Department at Washington...