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...Then came an upswing. In May pelt sales were $3,288,000, biggest month's total since October 1931. Road salesmen's summer orders were up 25% to 50%, August retail sales up 50% to 100% from 1932. Rising sharply since June, prices of raw furs last week showed an average gain of some 20%. With fashion strongly in their favor, manufacturers and retailers were prepared for an autumn & winter trade which might reach 75% of fat 1929's. All this was good news to some 3,000 fur farmers...
Before an onslaught of wettish snow and raw wind, a little group of interested spectators, who had turned out to watch the Winthrop-Adams and Eliot-Leverett interhouse games, dwindled slowly as the teams made a fast start, but soon settled down into a steady grind, during which few scores were made...
...passes plumped into Army hands for total gains of 148 yd. Twice they made touchdowns and once they carried the Army within plunging distance of another. Between times Buckler kicked superbly, once sent a punt sailing and rolling 87 yd. Army's hard-charging line, marvelously made from raw material this season, was alternately a stone wall and a steamroller. The decisiveness of Army's victory null caused many a dopester to wager it would go through the season undefeated (by Harvard, Navy, Notre Dame...
...students opportunity to round out their knowledge. President Lowell attempted to force them to acquire a little Kultur. The disease seems to have been too severe for such homeopathic doses. It is now clear that to improve the product of the curriculum there must be improvement in its raw material. If the college today would work improvements it would best begin by agitating energetically for a reliable, thorough and uniform system of kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools, which can be trusted to train boys for scholarship. Until such changes are made every college, Harvard included, will stifle under the incubus...
...centre of Rome's public gardens. Il Duce was there in a ringside box with his two sons. He exchanged the Fascist salute with Carnera as the man-mountain lumbered into the ring. Then Carnera began battering Uzcudun. He battered him until Uzcudun's face was raw meat. In the sixth round the referee stepped in. He waited for Uzcudun's seconds to wipe enough blood away for Uzcudun to see, then stepped out again. It went on for 15 rounds, the crowd howling for a knockout. But Carnera could neither knock his man down nor knock...