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...from North and South (TIME, Nov. 15), succeeded last week in relentless, smashing style. Long-eared Japanese Commander-in-Chief General Iwane Matsui helped his infantry pincers close by turning loose Japan's most potent naval and land artillery, hurled great projectiles screaming clear over the International Settlement to score hits on Chinese positions at as much as 7,500 yards (about four miles...
...suffers, students are heckled in the streets, and even the Yard rings to the yells of boys belligerently flying the flag of sour grapes. Rather than wait for action from the University in outfitting their vacant lots, why not act ourselves? Phillips Brooks House is not overtaxed. In Cambridge settlement houses Harvard men can do a world of good, if only to themselves. Since it is the student body that suffers from these potential criminals, students are the ones to interest boys in constructive recreation. The immediate solution, then is to organize local boys' clubs on some such basis...
Divorced. Thomas Franklin Manville Jr., egregious asbestos heir; by Marcelle Edwards Manville, his fourth wife; in Reno. Reported settlement: $200,000; her original demand...
...luscious and youthful Sannie van Reenen. his mind's decay under the strain, his eventual downfall. His followers go down with him, for largely through the bedeviled old man's mismanagement, the emigrants-now at the end of their trek and busily founding a new settlement-are caught off guard by a Zulu attack, wiped out to a man. But the cinematic plot serves principally as a framework for descriptions of the routine of South African pioneer life: the hunts, skirmishes, prayer meetings, occasional festivals. This more or less documentary side of the book will sustain most readers...
Along with the announcement that the drive was expected to place 35 new workers for which places are now open in settlement houses in the vicinity, board chairman Sheldon Ware '38 revealed that 203 men had been given assignments, 63 more than that in November of last year...