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...bedroom was air-conditioned at a cost of ?3,000 during one of London's persistent winter fogs (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). ¶George V hunched forward in his seat, Queen Mary raised her lorgnette with approving interest. On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre at a command performance for the King's pension fund for British stage folk, blonde U. S. Actress Claire Luce and Dancer Fred Astaire. brother of Lady Charles Cavendish, were doing their light-footed, rubber-hipped dance from the musicomedy Gay Divorce. ¶Arrested three weeks ago for "uttering, knowing the contents...
...against Tsardom. He shared in the "Decembrist" uprising of 1905, was arrested and emigrated "under pressure." In France he practiced medicine, astonished villagers by occasionally treating them free. He was at Lenin's side and Trotsky's during the terrible days of 1917 when the Bolsheviks took command of Russia. No one is more authentically Russian than he, no one more authentically of the Party...
...have been, if indeed it was not, obvious from the beginning. The tutorial system must, if Harvard is to foster any real intellectual interest, become predominant. The course system must become subsidiary, it must become simply the undergraduate's medium of contact with the professor whose knowledge and personality command more of a following than can be adequately handled by individual conferences...
...with her stockings. The judge who heard his prompt confession observed that there was no necessity to "hurry things." But in a distinctly hurrying mood was the crowd which began gathering outside St. Joseph's jail and court house that evening. When some rivermen appeared to take command of the mob, it surged into the court house, through the sheriff's living quarters, destroying everything before it. Governor Park ordered out the local militia tank company. Tankmen were lifted bodily out of their iron nests. After a four-hour siege, Sheriff Otto Theisen emerged from his smoky barricade...
Meanwhile there was drawing to a close last week a nation-wide reaffirmation of faith in Jesus Christ and His final command: "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost...