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EARTHLY DISCOURSE-Charles Erskine Scott WTood-Vanguard ($2). The author of Heavenly Discourse presenting a new cast of satirical puppets featuring God, Hearst, King Edward VIII. Hitler, the Supreme Court, Birth Control, Grade...
Across a continent from most high-grade U. S. college crews, Coach Connibear began by studying physics, reading books on rowing. Having mastered rowing theory, he devised his own means of putting it into practice. He raised the rigging in the boat to give more clearance above his oarsmen's thighs, thus permitting more leg power. He cut short the "lay-back," theretofore considered the most essential part of the stroke. Unfamiliar with nautical terms, Connibear coached his crews in baseball slang. Before his first big race, the Washington faculty tried to have him ousted. After it, when Washington...
...Herald & Express and the Detroit Times. Four made less money last year than five years ago in the deep of Depression, and six showed circulation losses since 1932. Most conspicuous loser was the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has shown operating losses every year since 1929. Definitely on the down grade is the Chicago Evening American, which used to be one of the big Hearst moneymakers. However, 1936 was the best year in history for the American Weekly, in both circulation (5,700,000) and operating profits...
...from the Mesabi alone has been transformed into the iron & steel of heavy industry. In 1929 the U. S. Bureau of Mines estimated that if ore continued to move out of the Lake Superior region at the rate of 65,204,600 tons a year, all the high-grade ore in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan would be exhausted in about 37 years. That rate fell as low as 3,567,985 tons during Depression, was up again to 44,822,023 in 1936. Especially important for this reason are the huge reserves of low-grade ore in the Mesabi Range...
Harvard, too, has no Freshmen who have been able to make the grade and get on the first eight. Way back las winter Bolles selected a Varsity crew composed entirely of experienced men, and he hasn't changed that crew once. It was quite a remarkable job of picking, and the result is that the boat that has been working together so long with none of those disturbing changes in personnel has developed into a powerful, smoothly functioning unit...