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...might hold, a Nazi bridal bonus is inaugurated. All newly married couples are granted a loan of 1,000 marks without interest, repayable at 1% of the principal monthly. Only conditions for the loan are that the bride must have been employed for six months before marriage, must quit the job and promise to take no other so long as her husband receives a minimum income of 125 marks ($34) monthly. All the money for the bridal bonus will come from a tax on the bachelors and spinsters of Germany...
...Dresden of the Mathematical Association of America. The size of the teams did not matter-the side which produced the ten best sets of answers would win. First day the teams worked over such easy matters as how many times two integral calculi go into four differential calculi. They quit early to have tea, rest their minds, study. Next day-a hot day -they moiled over discontinuous functions, convergent series, polar coordinates, second derivations. The finished papers were turned over to Professor Dresden at Swarthmore College. He was to announce results in ten days. Coaches for both teams agreed that...
...degree, went downtown and to work as a Tribune cub. For the next 28 years Editor Woods and Newshawk Draper served their respective publications. Last week Editor Woods, 60, erudite, kindly, somewhat deaf, resigned from the Literary Digest, planned to travel, write books; and Arthur Draper, 50, quit his job as assistant editor of the Herald Tribune to take Editor Woods's place...
...Barton had been intimate with his wife, Gertrude Gussenhaven Wagner King. "Frances Jo Wagner" left. Later the man sued his wife for divorce, naming Bruce Barton as corespondent, sued Barton for alienation of affections. On advice of his company's lawyers Barton settled for $25,000 and got quit-claims from man & wife. Last November the woman sued for $250,000 more, charging that Barton had warned other advertising agencies against hiring her. Trying another way of making a living, she wrote a book in which a principal character is named "Roos Martin." Last week the Manhattan Grand Jury...
Died. Paul B. King, 38, Wartime aviation captain, son of Utah's Senator William Henry King; when he fell/jumped from the seventh floor of Washington's Blackstone Hotel. A nervous breakdown six months ago forced Captain King to quit test piloting at Langley Field, Va., enter a sanitarium which he left last fortnight...