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...most engaging of U.S. fight-talk programs, NBC's Dear Adolf, bows off the air this Sunday (Aug. 2) after six successful broadcasts. Unlike many another morale program, it is quitting before the thread shows through the tires...
...Women, a Thread. Mills College, tucked in the Oakland hills behind the Golden Gate, was trying to make its summer session a rich and verdant oasis of culture. It certainly seemed a little less rushed, a little more cosmopolitan than other campuses in the busy summer of 1942. This aloofness was in keeping with the philosophy of its president, Mrs. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, who, still dark-haired at 65, prides herself on maintaining a historical perspective. Mrs. Reinhardt believes that Mills, the Pacific Coast's finest college for women, has a special role in the defense of civilization. "Women...
With a few men strung along the thread, Mills's coeducational summer session had 350 students for the summer. One group lived in Orchard-Meadow Hall with A. Maurois, speaking passable French and concentrating on durable French culture. Another, forming a Casa Pan-Americana, bandied Spanish and Portuguese with famed Latin-American Scholar Samuef Guy Inman, even staged fiestas for visiting Latin-American sailors. For music, there was French Composer Darius Milhaud and the Budapest String Quartet, with whom some quartet-struck students carried on a mild flirtation. There were also Architect Richard Neutra, ex-German Political Scientist Hans...
Over his head waved a punkah, drawn by a white-clad woman disciple. About his body was a simple cotton loincloth, the thread of which was spun by his own hands. In one hand he held a rag, which he constantly dipped into a bowl of water by his side and wiped over his shiny bald head. About him followers and secretaries knelt crosslegged. Gandhi looked old as wisdom, skeleton-thin, sharp, birdlike; now all his teeth are gone. He seemed in remarkable spirits...
...months, when the General and his fellow prisoners were given airings in the nearby fields, they casually picked strands of hemp, until finally they had enough to weave a long rope. Another version, attributed by Vichy to the General himself, was that his wife had sent him lengths of thread in every gift package, and these he had woven into rope...