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...trickled into the U. S. The book's author, so rumor ran, was a Japanese corporal serving in China, but the book was antiwar, its sales large* (500,000 copies in Japan). Last week U. S. readers could see for themselves "Corporal Ashihei Hino's" gun-sight ac count of the Japanese invasion of China...
...Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam. . . ." ("I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope.") There was a cheer. He continued, spacing his words dramatically: "Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum dominum meum. . . ." ("My most eminent and most reverend lord. . . .") "Dominum Cardinalem Eugenium. ..." A roar rose from the Square, before the Cardinal could conclude: . . . "Pacelli, qui sibi nomen imposuit Pium Duodecimum." At this news that the new Pope, Eugenic Pacelli, Secretary of State and Cardinal Camerlengo, had taken the name of his predecessor and mentor, the crowd set up a hum and buzz. Then, as excitement gave way to pious fervor...
Henderson came by his music naturally. His father was a theatrical producer who put on U. S. premières of Gilbert & Sullivan at the old Fifth Avenue Theatre. Ettie Henderson, his mother, was an ac tress, playwright and musician. She taught her son to sing and play when he was only seven...
Excerpts: "Beginning with the Fleming valve and the Coolidge X-ray tube, we now have an enormous variety of [electronic] tubes for radio sending, detection and amplification, electric power control or conversion from AC to DC or vice versa, lighting devices, sunshine meters, oscillographs. ... I take particular pleasure in mentioning these practical values, for even the most unimaginative and shortsighted, hardheaded, practical businessman is forced to admit the justification for the pure re-search-of no preconceived practical use whatever in the minds of those who led in its prosecution." Bovine Brains. After thorough study of the manners and aptitudes...
...instruction given in the hitherto strictly autonomous College, Sheffield Scientific School and graduate schools. It set up a Provost to conduct the faculty's business with the Administration, established a single board of admissions and a common freshman year, with a separate freshman faculty, for "Sheff" and "Ac." Simple and sensible though these reforms seemed to outsiders, they cut deep into Yale's vital fabric of traditions, left a mass of supersensitive and unsutured ganglions. At that point, Yale's Grand Old Man, Arthur Twining Hadley, resigned the Presidency, thus leaving Yale not only suffering from postoperative...