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Voice of the Midwest. The trust of the U.S. people in Elmer Davis today is a tribute 1) to the power of radio, 2) to the power of common sense. Until he began his news broadcasts, Davis was unknown to the population at large...
...sleeper, Hitler's Children, made by an unknown producer, Edward A. Golden, with a starless cast, on a small budget ($170,000), has already grossed $1,000,000 and broken attendance records almost everywhere it has been shown...
...fighting war, at the same time help Hitler as much as he liked or had to. To what extent, if any, the U.S. concessions had actually altered that policy was a moot question last week. As in other phases of U.S. foreign relations, many factors were as yet unknown to the public. Said the New York Herald Tribune, voicing a prevalent doubt...
Conrad liked best to talk about people. "I do not mean gossip . . . he liked to probe the psychology of people, known or even unknown to him, just as he liked best to read diaries and memoirs, infinitely more than fiction or history." He had "the Slav love for long, intimate talk." They used to sit by the fire "until 2 or 3 in the morning, sipping whiskey, which he always took with plain water, advising me never to take soda, as it hardens arteries...
...Providence club is a chummy, little clique who come out of Rhode Island every year to make like a swimming team against the Varsity. Just what is contained in their ranks is an unknown quantity, but Ulen's charges should take them in stride, as they do every year. Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League STANDING OF THE TEAMS W. L. Pct. Princeton 6 0 1.000 Yale 4 0 1.000 Dartmouth 4 2 .667 Navy 3 3 .500 Harvard 2 3 .400 Army 2 4 .333 Columbia 1 4 .200 Pennsylvania...