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...year being nigh, Economics A is about to lift its heavy hand off 734 odd persons, and the students are able to count up what they have gained and lost in the largest course in the college. Always the target of a shower of slings and arrows, the course has rarely been pricked so hard and so often as this year. The instructors are tempted to hide behind an old shield, their lack of time to give to the students due to the painful crimping of the Department budget, but a large missile marked "disorganization" cannot be thus dodged...
...dancing in the streets. Thursday night's specialty this year was to be a tennis match between Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry at the Jefferson County Armory. Friday night festivities were the Derby Eve Ball, an all-star wrestling program, and the annual reunion banquet & mint-julep shower of Kentucky Colonels. Saturday is the Derby...
...clock the Department's newest and shiniest ladder truck was blocking half of Quincy Street behind the Fire House, and a shower of spray fell from the hose at the top of the raised ladder...
...come to Genova. Genova is a city of some 650,00 inhabitants, one night club, a Lido with American shower baths, Paganini's violin, 666 places where Columbus slept, an impressive monument to Cristoforo Colombo and the one and only place where he was born. This latter is a small two story stone house with bars over the windows, a noble inscription saying whose house it was and in much bigger letters a warning saying that anyone posting bills here will be prosecuted...
...week opened the bag of information about Spain which his espionage service keeps replenishing daily, shook out through his press spokesman Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia whole pages of minute particulars of Soviet, French and other "neutral" aid to the Spanish Leftists. So rich was this shower of charges in detail that only the chiefs of other espionage services were in a position to estimate its exactness. Laymen and journalists noted that Italy's charges amount to saying that Socialist Premier Blum, while prating of neutrality, has been winking at wholesale smugglery of munitions and warplanes...