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...garish, picture-strewn Sunday News of the World, but at least 20 times the influence. The sedate, 157-year-old Observer is only six years the junior of the hoary London Times,* and proud of its past. It missed the boat by giving the battle of Trafalgar a scant squib, but scooped the town on the outbreak of the Crimean War. In 1820 it broke the law by printing news of a trial before it was over. Fined ?500, the paper refused to pay; the law was soon forgotten...
...Dumping Ground. The church's first congregation numbered a scant 25 souls and was located in a section crammed with Negro war workers. Thurman persuaded them to move. "Until we became strong enough to have a character of our own, I thought we'd better get out of the atmosphere," he explains. The last thing he wanted was for the experiment to develop a settlement-house aura or become "a dumping ground for do-gooders who would get an uplift once a week by coming into the Negro community and helping a struggling interracial activity. I wanted people...
Despite this optimistic forecast, wheat futures dropped a scant 2? a bushel in the Chicago grain pits. Traders counted on Government exports of some 400,000,000 bushels to take care of any surplus...
Masses of Spies? On scant (24 hours) notice the Russians last week bluntly informed the Western Powers that henceforth a new inspection policy would prevail on travel through the Soviet zone which encircles Berlin. Russian officials would board all military trains, inspect passengers and papers, pick over cargoes...
...rest for the weary seems to be the order of the day for the Varsity skaters, as they face off today against Williams out in the Berkshires but three scant days after ferocious Dartmouth's timely departure...