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Officials of the two groups doubt the wisdom of holding two such affairs for the College the same evening, and they are attempting to work out a change in the dates. Since the Rindge rally affects a wider group of people, it is understood that Mr. Bacon will speak at Harvard later in the week...
...months this question has been bumping loosely and loudly around Washington. Religionists and educators felt that the New Deal, as part of its general reform program, should open the air wider to them. The Federal Communications Commission took the question firmly in hand and proceeded, through a three-man board, to hold public hearings. Last week Radio's biggest wigs trooped to Washington to protest any plan which would force them to take into their broadcasting studios any specified number of preachers or pedagogs and permit them to hold forth, without charge, for any specified amount of time...
...Flying Trapeze opened their eyes at his Preface: "A writer can have ultimately, one of two styles: he can write in a manner that implies that death is inevitable, or he can write in a manner that implies that death is not inevitable"; opened their eyes wider & wider at this doom-implying youngster as they read further. To readers accustomed to a well-defined short-story tradition, Author Saroyan's subjective soliloquies may seem impertinently irrelevant to the price of eggs. His unconcern with plot is enough to drive contrivers of well-made stories mad with resentment. All Author...
With the influx of youth to advanced educational institutions there has come a demand for a wider definition of the liberal education. Investigations by a government survey indicates that the average number and variety of courses offered today, compared with those of 25 years ago, is 500 per cent greater. And, in proportion, the range and variety of opportunities open to the average graduate are far more extensive today than was true 25 years...
...Vincent Gebardi, her blonde hair braided and wrapped around her head halo-fashion, teed off at Chicago's Lincoln Park in the first round of the Illinois Women's Public Parks golf tournament. In wider Chicago circles Mrs. Gebardi is known as "The Blonde Alibi," and wife of "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, Public Enemy No. 4. Gangster Vincent Gebardi (alias "Jack McGurn") was suspected of participating in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Pretty Louise Rolfe, just out of high school, took the witness stand at his trial, swore that he had been with her in a hotel...