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Class B contestants number 278, entered by Arlington, Belmont, Beverly, Concord, David Prouty of Spencer, Fairhaven, Haverhill, Leominster, Lexington, Malden, Mariborough, Methuen, Milton, Needham, Newburyport, Quincy, Salem, Somerville, Taunton, Wakefield, Watertown, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn, and Worcester Commerce High Schools...
...MIRROR FOR WITCHES - Esther Forbes-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Child of witches burned in Brittany, Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering the fruit of her foster-mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs...
Gazers-on were quite naturally surprised that so staid and lugubrious a representation should be the work of a 23-year-old native of Winston-Salem, N. C. With slow words, Donald Mattison explained about his picture. It was not intended as a sermon but only as "a remark upon life in New York...
...Senator Heflin tried to obtain the Forsyth County Court House at Winston-Salem, N. C., to hold an anti-Smith demonstration. But the County Commissioners refused to allow it. Senator Heflin, blatant bigot, would injure Winston-Salem's reputation and lower the prestige of North Carolina Democrats, they said...
...high character and ability, who shall have demonstrated his qualifications both by intellectual achievement and by participation in the student activities" of the University. This scholarship, one of the most noteworthy awards of the University, was founded in 1923 by friends and classmates of R.P. Parker '22, of Salem, who was killed in an airplane accident near Paris the year year before his graduation...