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...Tradition is all right," he admits, "but there must be close to 2000 board feet of lumber, in that damned thing." Purchasing this pine plus paying the carpenters and laborers required to make the Commencement deadline costs the University several thousand dollars every year...
...time of Ching Ming, the Pure Brightness Festival. Throughout the land the Chinese people, obeying ancient precepts, dutifully swept and tidied the graves of their ancestors. At the foot of a pine-dotted mountain in remote Chungpu, Shensi province, such a grave was swept. This was the tradition-hallowed tomb of the greatest ancestor of all, Huang Ti (Yellow Emperor), legendary Father of the Chinese race...
...most popular move on the sports front is the construction of the new tennis courts on Soldiers Field. The job was completed last fall with the planting of baby pine trees around the area. A whole new development is springing up behind the Business School, where more than 15 new courts will soon be available for tennis...
...Their Fellow Men. The final piece in this book is a study of the loyalty of an entire French village in the Vosges Mountains. In August 1944 the author, an intelligence officer with a British parachute detachment, dropped into the pine forests surrounding the village. The Germans knew that the hills held marauding Maquis and parachutists, but they never knew how pitifully few there were. Every man in the village could have told them. Accordingly, the Gestapo rounded up all the men in the village-210-and sent them to concentration camps, where 140 of them perished. Not one betrayed...
...Pine Mountain, 37 miles from Columbus, Ga., a group of men awaited their initiation into the Ku Klux Klan one night last week. One by one they were summoned, unsheeted, into a tar-paper shack to "take the obligation." When the last man had been called, three still remained outside. They had not been invited; they were three newsmen from the Columbus Ledger who had been tipped that this was to be the biggest Ku Klux Klan gathering around Columbus in 20 years...