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...Blue 150-pound boat has suffered the usual fate of lightweight crews with continual shifting in the seatings all spring, but a close victory over Pennsylvania last week on the Harlem shows its potentialities...
...shall order a series of unexpected individual exploits." So spoke Adolf Hitler in 1934 to Hermann Rauschning,* then his chief Party henchman in Danzig, today one of numerous experts who believe that the Austrian Corporal, having taken final leave of his senses, is spinning insanely toward the same fate that overtook a Corsican Corporal 125 years...
...continent of Europe, large or small, was safe. Not since the first decade of the 19th Century, when Bonaparte was on the prowl, had panic so seized Europe. Caught in the relentless pressure of power politics, the politicians of the smaller nations were as helpless as their people. The fate of their countries was in the hands of belligerents and near-belligerents; neutrality no longer seemed possible...
Lack of practice in rowing together will undoubtedly tell in the first few races, but the prospective opponents have probably met with the same fate. Maybe next week's workouts and time trials will bring something to light...
...Electric (TIME, March 4) but a smaller pyramid in which Hoppy once had a large voting interest. This was the $400,000,000 fantasy called Utilities Power & Light Corp., put together by a Chicago Christian Scientist and Shakespeare devotee, Harley Lyman Clarke. Crueler than death has been the fate of ex-tycoon Clarke: by 1938 his own lawyer officially admitted he was too poor to be sued. Unlike Hopson (who built up good operating utilities on the theory that fat cows give richest milk) Shakespearean Clarke bought and overcapitalized nearly everything...