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...answer is to line up the animal wagons in the parade of international politics. Zoomen plan to send aggressive collectors to Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, fight for ark space on banana-boat decks, show zoogoers the fauna of their Good Neighbors. Jennings is hoping that British Empire good will will bring in rare koalas from Australia, wingless kiwi birds from New Zealand (both are now legally barred from export...
Died. Harvey Crowley Couch, 63, the Southwest's No. 1 utilitycoon, Arkansas's wealthiest citizen; at his summer home on Lake Catherine near Hot Springs, Ark. Son of a farmer-preacher, he had saved $156 by the time he was 26, put it into a partnership with a village postmaster and strung a telephone line from Arkansas into neighboring Louisiana. He built it into a four-State line and sold it nine years later to Bell Telephone for $1,500,000. He used the money to organize Arkansas Power & Light, built that into a $71,000,000 colossus...
...plaintiff dug up the coffin in which her Wilson Strickland had been buried, took the rotted wood to court, tried to prove that it had come from a Mongomery County pine tree. Most amazing witness was Mrs. Anne Stuart Snow, a Strickland descendant from Lewisville, Ark., who testified that her family's Bible had been destroyed by fire in 1896 when she was eleven years old. She said she recalled 160 pictures and biographies in the Bible, described the photographs in detail, said that Wilson Strickland's picture had been torn out of the lower left-hand corner...
...worried captive masses, the Nazis provide programs that emphasize their woes, carefully bypassing any German responsibility; 2) for gullible listeners, they furnish scapegoats such as the Jews for troubles of every kind; 3) to wear opponents, they endlessly reiterate unhappy news, such as the fictitious sinking of the Ark Royal; 4) to break down confidence in harassed enemy governments the Nazis quote and misquote important local sources: for example, in one recent week, they misquoted the Manchester Guardian criticizing Churchill, misquoted the august Times discussing supply policies. They evidently felt sure that no average listener would bother to check...
...should visit Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Ark. but rotund Elsa Maxwell, professional party-liner for café society. Last week, interviewed by the New York World-Telegram, Miss Maxwell had some unexpectedly shrewd observations to make about the U.S. Army's morale. Said...