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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skiing on the steep trails and slalom courses of the 1936 Olympics in Austria was shown last night in crowded Kirkland House Common Room movies taken by the well known Dartmouth skier Ten Hunter...
...attacks on French Left and Centre politicians has made thousands of Frenchmen think of him as an extreme Rightist. In the past few weeks Cartoonist Sennep has surprised them with an anti-Fascist campaign in the daily Epoque. Last week he avowed: "It's true I've taken more digs at Left politicians but that's because they are so much funnier to draw." Patent-leather smooth, dark, fat, affable J. Sennep's real name is Jean-Jacques Charles Pennes. One brother, General Roger Pennes, is a bigwig in the Air Ministry. After serving through...
...emphasize football is to hold the games in the morning. Another is to quit subsidizing players. The University of Pittsburgh, whose eleven is justly famed, seemed to have taken the second course last week. It ordered 22 freshman football players to pay the promissory notes they had signed for the first semester's tuition...
Admitted to U. S. citizenship in a Hollywood courtroom, German-born Cinemactress Luise Rainer jumped up & down, clapped her hands, cut a couple of delighted capers. Then she risked a reprimand from the U. S. Flag Association by wrapping herself in a U. S. flag, having her picture taken. To a meeting of 200 teachers, sardonic Author-Professor John Erskine declared that the only subject taught correctly in the schools today is athletics...
These efforts have taken form in the Committee for Refugees, which hopes to bring to Harvard persecuted German students. Its aims and its plans present a picture of mutual benefits for all concerned. On the one hand a score of lives will be saved, a score of students will receive a higher education otherwise denied them. On the other hand Harvard will gain, in addition to the satisfaction of having tangibly asserted her belief in human values, a score of brilliant minds, qualified to carry her standards to higher levels...