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...outdoor sensation of New York in 1934. Jammed to capacity, Lewisohn Stadium seated 15,000, gave standing room to 2,000. Police reserves were called to handle a crowd of 10,000 who jostled outside the gates, were unable to get in. Quick to seize the advantages of an un suspected popularity, the Stadium Concerts management announced a return engagement of Fokine dancers...
...legs around a flour barrel on his Indiana farm. Planning to become a professional fisticuffer when he ends his career as wrestler, Browning cuffed Londos on the nose. Londos whacked his opponent on the ear, adroitly tripped him, twisted his foot in a toe hold. Wrestling bouts continue un til one contestant or the other is too tired or too dazed to function normally. After an hour and ten minutes, Londos last week turned his back on his opponent, reached across his own shoulder to seize Brown ing's head, tossed him over his shoulder in a "flying mare...
...Paragraph 24 of the Nazi Constitution which explicitly makes Christianity the religion of Brownshirts. This was disposed of amid roars of ap proval when Keynoter Gericke cried : "Paragraph 24 is something for our Party itself to interpret ! . . . We will go further entirely in the Nazi spirit!" The way to un-Jew the Bible, a majority of Nazi speakers made plain, is to reject the dogma of sin and, from this, reject the concept of a Messiah dying for the sins of others. In a spirit of Nazi compromise it was agreed that "the saintly individuality of Christ is beyond question...
Next day the old guard British parties denounced Sir Oswald for his foreign and un-British resort to force in founding a "private army'' instead of sticking to straight politics. Laborites accused the police of improper Fascist leanings and undue readiness at Olympia to arrest working-class hecklers. Over the weekend six Cabinet Ministers dignified British Fascism by making speeches against it. Keynoters: Minister of Labor Sir Henry Betterton: "The country must decide at the next election whether constitutional government will remain or be destroyed." Colonial Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister: "If the disaster of Dictatorship comes...
...ordinary university proctor walked into some University of Chicago examination rooms one day last week his first impulse would have been to cry "Un-fair!", to throw every student out for flagrant cheating. Row on row sat students with question sheets before them. But instead of scratching their heads and staring desperately out windows nearly every one was busily thumbing through textbooks and lecture notes...