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Town &. Country. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, President in absentia of Stanford University, opined: "We have gathered great numbers of our children into concrete and brick cities. ... It is very difficult to bring up children with the sense of responsibility which is so important, with the electric or gas stove, chemical refrigeration and milk coming in a sterilized bottle...
...Christobal Colon, so do six other towns. Columbus' early life is wrapped in obscurity. Says Wassermann: he told conflicting tales about his origins, his early experiences. "He was as morose as a monk, crafty as a peasant, without a glimmer of humor-a character unrelieved by a single ray of cheerfulness. A man of sighs and lamentations, misery and gloom. But for all that, his capacity for suffering and his patience in the bearing of it were prodigious and are strangely touching, like stories from the life of a saint. He learned almost nothing, and knew everything that might...
...while no Illini has been a U. S. President or tycoon of the first magnitude, he will learn to share alumnal pride in j such figures as President Samuel Wesley Stratton of M.I.T., who took his B.S. at Illinois; Senator Otis F. Glenn of Illinois; Motormaker Ray Graham...
...Wanamaker International Trophy, engraved with the names of Paavo Nurmi, Charles Hoff, Dr. Otto Peltzer, and Ray Conger was sent last week to be engraved with the American name (Stella Walsh) of Stella Walaciewicz, Polish girl sprinter, because she had set a new world record for women, 6 seconds, in the 50-yard dash at the Millrose Games in Manhattan...
...Chief ray of hope 'for the U. S., whose airlines are still incubating the possibilities of trans-ocean air travel, remains in the Armstrong Seadromes (TIME, Oct. 28). The first is now being built to be anchored between New York and Bermuda. If it proves feasible the Atlantic will be bridged with them, and the necessity of using the Azores as a U. S.-Europe way-air-station, while convenient, will not be vital...