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Urbane, but making little effort to conceal his happy mind, the Rev. Charles Stelzle, Chairman of the Church Advertising Department, International Advertising Association, last week made public with extensive comment the results of a ten-day "nation-wide" religious poll, just concluded. One hundred fifty-three city newspapers from Manhattan to Seattle had asked their readers such forthright questions as: "Do you believe in God?"† "Do you think that religion in some form is necessary?" To the first, 91% answered yes; to the second 87% yes. In fact all the proportions were almost equally favorable to the cause, unless...
There gentlemen were quick to explain that this was not an old Lampoon custom but a Christmas present. Whedon, when interviewed, declined to comment, but Bob Lampoon, who was appointed guinea guardian extraordinary, suggested that this was not a surprise in so much as the Lampoon had been keeping birds of one feather or another for some time...
...Woods' appointment seems to be tangled up with everything that has happened in Pennsylvania politics from the spring of 1926 to what will happen in the spring of 1928. Even the rock-ribbed Republican New York Herald Tribune supplied the following comment in its news columns last week: "It is declared that the real reason why he has been selected for the Interstate Commerce Commission is that the Mellon forces in Pennsylvania have set out to control the Pennsylvania delegation in 1928 for President Coolidge and that Mr. Woods, in this influential Federal post, will be in a situation...
...European comment upon the treaty was caustic, last week, as keynoted by the London Times: "The projected treaty is absolutely incompatible with the position of Panama in the League of Nations. According to the League Covenant, Panama has undertaken to submit any disputes that are 'likely to lead to a rupture to arbitration or to an inquiry by the Council of the League and in no case to resort to war until a sufficient time has elapsed for an award to be rendered...
...stated authoritatively that Harvard and Boston College will not meet in competition the present college year. For the past month rumors have been current to the effect that Harvard and Boston College were soon to resume athletic relations. Although Harvard officials have refused to comment on the situation, it is understood that overtures have been made by Frank Reynolds, graduate manager of athletics at the Heights, with the view to a resumption of hockey and baseball relations this season...