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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among U. S. citizens who listened, hair-on-end, to Actor Orson Welles's Martian newscast (TIME, Nov. 7) was a doddypolled 22-year-old airplane mechanic named Cheston Lee Eshleman. More piqued than panicked, he got an idea. He wanted to pay the Martians a return visit, stake out a refuge for "harmless people" during the next war. Secretly, he wrote to Britain for maps and other information that would be useful in a transatlantic flight...
Married. Marion Houghton Hepburn, sister of Actress Katharine Hepburn (see p. 40); and Ellsworth Strong Grant; in West Hartford, Conn. Among the bridesmaids: Sister Katharine...
...According to Dr. Esmond Ray Long of Philadelphia, the type of T. B. which strikes Negroes, most susceptible group in the U. S. population to respiratory diseases, is the same as that which strikes whites. T. B. develops and spreads more quickly among Negroes, and they die more quickly...
Jews and Alcohol. Among U. S. Jews,, said Boston's famed Dr. Abraham Myerson, alcoholism is practically nonexistent. Reason: social tradition. "[The Jew] had to live by his wits in an environment where he had to maintain the full potency and coherency of his personality. Alcoholism became dangerous to the group and received severe punishment...
...aggregate weight is much greater, appear by comparison either meek or musclebound. But last week in Philadelphia a Protestant group took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and displayed capable biceps. A meeting of 500 Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that: "No group, whether racial, nationalistic or ecclesiastical, should be allowed to place its own interests above the public weal or to exercise a disproportionate control of public affairs...