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...Yale, a favorite topic was Alumnus Newell Martin, 75, and President Angell. Laboring under the impression that his alma mater had gratuitously urged him and his fellow Yale alumni to behave themselves at their reunions, Alumnus Martin had sat down and addressed to President Angell (via The New York Times) a tart letter on the subject of teaching old gentlemen party manners (TIME, June...
...would be made Commissar of Foreign Trade; but, at the eleventh hour, it was decided that any rearrangement of the Council would be interpreted abroad as a symptom of weakness. The election of Trotzky referred to last week was to the Federal Congress of Soviets. A report from Moscow, via Berlin, stated that Ivan Stalin was using Trotzky as a lever to oust Grigori Zinoviev, chief of the Third Internationale. Stalin and Zinoviev were formerly fast friends and led the recent attacks against Trotzky that led to his political fall (TIME, Jan. 26). It now appears that Stalin (backed...
...afternoon on the Freshman diamond. Not only did he score three runs and drive in three more, but he let down the Normal School batters with five hits and three runs. Coach Lake's batters went on a rampage with their bats, collecting 17 hits. Cordingley retired 11 men via the strike-out route and after the first inning, the Seconds played an almost air-tight game in the field...
...that seemed to have passed over shoals; in tidal variations observed in Greenland and Alaska; in the mystery surrounding the nesting habitat of certain migratory birds. Should a new continent be discovered, its chief importance might be. 1) for the establishment of air-routes between Europe and Eastern Asia via the Pole; 2) for the land body's influence on North American weather conditions...
Connelly was born in McKeesport, Pa., educated at a private school and never went to college. Instead, he did various jobs for a newspaper and, finally, drifted into the playwriting business via Dulcy. He is short, alert, slightly bald, young, with a funny, short laugh that punctuates almost all his remarks. He is a parlor entertainer of great order and his acting has something of the pantomimic grace and comic pathos of Charlie Chaplin. His gift for making the witty remark might have been his undoing, for it is a rare one and makes for popularity; yet Connolly has kept...