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...British citizen and a believer in and worker for tangible democracy as opposed to the pseudo brand favoured by the small but tragically influential clique of imperialists which "runs" the British Empire, I share your resentment and dismay that such an extremely undemocratic and reactionary person as Halifax should be an honoured guest at Harvard's Commencement...
...three days last weekend, the brand new 35,000-ton German battleship Bismarck was mistress of the seas. Against seemingly heavy odds, she had blown to bits Britain's largest warship, the 42,100-ton Hood; fought off one of Britain's newest and mightiest, the Prince of Wales. The fight lasted only 300 seconds; took place last Saturday morning in Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland...
...Four University of California trackmen (John Reese, Grover Klemmer, Dick Peter, Clarence Barnes): two-mile relay, feature race of Los Angeles' brand-new Coliseum Relays, in 7 min., 34.5 sec.; breaking by 1.3 sec. the world's record set by a team of U.S. Olympic stars (Hornbostel, Young, Williamson, Woodruff) at London...
Nashville last week made its comeback as a city of fleet horses. On the broad hillsides of Percy Warner Park, ten miles outside the city, 30,000 Tennesseans and their guests gathered to watch a steeplechase run over its brand-new course in the natural amphitheater below. Visitors said it was the most beautiful steeplechase course in the world. Natives were far more excited over the race itself: the inaugural of the Iroquois Memorial Steeplechase, with big-name jumpers competing on Tennessee's own blue grass to revive the Volunteer State's great racing tradition...
...there is a brand of music which needs all the publicity it can get. It was the foundation of the whole swing craze of the past six years--hot jazz, the original "swing music," which was seized by the public fancy and diluted into almost unrecognizable cacophony. Swing became the all-inclusive word, embracing alike the beautiful solos of Louis Armstrong and the blatant output of so many contemporary bands. The result was that hot jazz was blamed for the excesses of the commercialized product...