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...annual report released yesterday Dean Hanford approved the new plan for area concentration fields and threw out a suggestion that plans of study might be even further individualized. He also attacked the tutoring schools and reviewed the measures taken in the past year to combat them...
...concerned, and indeed is a standout on the whole squad. Fast as lightning, he has the perfect form and timing which make his movements seem as easy and graceful as they are speedy. The surprising counter-attacks which featured his bouts last year frequently disconcerted his opponents and threw them off balance. In the Pentagonals at Annapolis Tom beat the man who won the individual championship in the sabre...
...industrial Manchester's Free Trade Hall, 2,500 citizens listened as the First Lord vaunted that Adolf Hitler had lost the first phase of the war by not launching crushing attacks. Suddenly from the audience came a single shout-for Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Police threw the heckler out. Unruffled, Winston Churchill went on. The time might come, he said, when Britain would take the initiative. "We want Mosley!" came a new shout. Police did their work again. Churchill continued. The shout was repeated...
After three years as society reporter and cinema critic on a London newspaper, she at last found her first really satisfying activity when she threw up the job to travel with circuses, as publicity woman. Between tours she junketed on a Portuguese tramp steamer with a cargo of wild animals and a mad captain. She also got mixed up with a snaggletoothed, hophead Chicago gangster named Kid Spider, who proposed marriage and got her in the bad books of Scotland Yard...
...showing them his blunt, smoldering music (much of it written for Brazilian tom-toms and gourd rattles), the Parisians decided he was a sort of musical William Saroyan. His Paris apartment became a rendezvous for admiring Left-Bankers. Villa-Lobos, who couldn't afford to keep open house, threw them out, told them not to come back unless they brought their own food. Even on those terms, they came back. When Heitor Villa-Lobos returned to his native Brazil a few years later, he found that his European reputation had preceded him. He was Brazil...