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...been dealt with only lightly by her pen. After twenty years abroad, a wandering farmer's daughter returns to the old homestead, seeking relaxation and rebirth which she feels that getting back to the earth again can give her. She finds the old and sturdy stock has deteriorated. The oak has turned into an Oakie, and the cheap dance-hall, the installment-burdened car and mortgaged farm comprise the life of a people squeezed of ambition by years of poor crops and unprofitable prices. Fortified by her determination to overcome the forces which have laid Europe open to dictatorship...
...dune-strewn shore of Flour Bluf Peninsula twelve miles southwest of Corpus Christi, Tex. on the Gulf of Mexico, was once an old camp site where Indians buried their dead. Then it became the favorite hunting, fishing, and picnic grounds of Corpus Christians. Last week the scrub oak peninsula brislted with shiny white hangars, repair shops, buildings of all descriptions. In bright new classrooms, 52 pink-cheeked, khaki-clad youths got their initial instruction. Seventy-five more were due thi week. The U. S. Navy's biggest air station (70% completed) was open 16 months ahead of the original...
...newsmen gaped, moved on to the City Hall. There, in a reception room decorated with jonquils and tulips, on a long oak table were spread calf-bound records, property deeds, Great-Grandfather Willkie's will. Their significance, according to Nazi spokesmen: they prove that Willkie is "a liar." Aschersleben's city archivist, Prussian-headed little Rector Goapka, launched into the story of his Willkie research. He made a big point of the four spellings of the name he found in church and city records: Willke, Willcke, Willeke, Willecke. "But," said he, "the name was never Willicke, as Herr...
Visitors found much to marvel at, much to admire. The four and a half acres of oak-floored galleries were fitted with comfortable, upholstered sofas. In all the 90 galleries on the main floor, light fell with scientifically controlled evenness through laminated glass skylights, which let in diffused sunlight by day, artificial sunlight by night. In the basement, a Dali dream of convoluted pipes and fans air-conditioned the whole building, from the soaring spaces of the rotunda to the tiled cafeteria where staff and public could snatch a sandwich between expeditions...
...other Seniors elected to the Class Day Committee, in order of their total votes, were: Francis M. Simpson of Oak Park, Illinois and Kirkland House, Sheldon Dietz of Brookline and Dunster House, John F. Brooks of Salem and Eliot House, Elliot L. Richardson of Brookline and Winthrop House, and, in a tie for sixth place, George H. Hanford of Cambridge and Winthrop House and Donald A. Donahue of Lawrence and Eliot House...