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...Abraham Lincoln Brigade (which now includes the George Washington Brigade) of Leftist Spain. Total membership of the Friends is about 25,000, all paying annual dues of $1, and many contributing more besides. About 3,500 are blood relatives of the jaunty "Abies and Georgies" who in devil-may-care brown berets are fighting the Spanish Rightists. The Friends have been collecting about $15,000 per month, last week launched a campaign to raise $50,000 per month from now on. Their spirit is that of Leftist Spanish Novelist Ramon J. Sender, who stepped off the Queen Mary last week...
...unduly sanctimonious to consider the Harvard Summer School as a worthy and useful way to spend a part of the vacation. The Summer School is an important part of the University, and one gravely misunderstood by the undergraduate, who thinks of it as a sultry Devil's Island where one is sent for scholastic bad behaviour. In reality the six weeks spent here can prove extremely valuable to students in good standing as well as their less fortunate brethren...
...reviewer no reproof: He did not say Belbenoit wrote a bad book. Stranded in San Francisco last July, René Belbenoit wrote Explorer William LaVarre in Manhattan, who took him East, arranged for publication of his book. His first job was to pass on the accuracy of Devil's Island scenes in The Life of Emile Zola. If he gets a pardon from the French Government, as he hopes, ex-Convict Belbenoit plans to go back to France, return to the U. S. under the quota...
...alcohol. Unfortunately, during the past summer, poor Oscar passed to his doom. I wonder if you could help me find some Harvard student to accompany me on my spring tour to replace poor Oscar, as I have heard on good information that Harvard students are possessed with the devil of drink. Hopefully yours, Rev. Jonah M. Wilde...
Except during his seven months in a mental hospital, which he described in Asylum, big, credulous, 52-year-old William Seabrook has never found in the U. S. the kind of people he likes to write about most-devil worshipers, whirling dervishes, cannibals. In These Foreigners, a study of foreign-born Americans, Author Seabrook finds a suitable compromise. Popular, readable, with a minimum of round-figure footnotes, his book picks only the "non-statistical, humaninterest" highlights...