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...them. Many live so far away that several hours a day are neded for traveling to and from college. Such students are inclined to ignore sports and other activities because they cut into the time neded for study. Furthermore, students who live at college tend, unwittingly perhaps, to attach a social stigma to the man who commutes...
...hindered by a lack of expert serologists and the fact that bumbling technicians have sometimes made errors. But expert Dr. Wiener in Manhattan recently settled a Colorado paternity case with blood chilled and shipped to him by plane. Dr. Wiener advised rich oldsters who anticipate inheritance squabbles to attach a blood-group analysis to their wills...
...hearty Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura called on the Emperor last week, then made ready for his new mission as Ambassador to the U. S., where during World War I he was the popular, card-playing naval attaché of a friendly second-rate power. Things have changed since then. Every influential Japanese newspaper last week regarded Ambassador Nomura's mission as hopeless. Said Tokyo's Miyako: "The United States is disturbing our gigantic task of constructing a new East Asia." Said Hochi: "Sending an Ambassador to Washington is like ordering a man on horseback to charge a wall." Said...
...stood his ground, snapped them, got cracked on the back of the neck.* Now the crowd realized it had been tricked out of seeing the U. S. Vice President-elect. In blind fury they charged the Embassy steps. A brawl ensued. A policeman by mistake slugged U. S. Naval Attaché for Air Commander Wallace M. Dillon on the crown with a blackjack. A bemused Mexican singled out huge, tough U. S. Military Attaché Lieut. Colonel Gordon H. McCoy to sock on the chin and was flattened by the colonel for his pains. There were indications that the riot...
...extremist's cynosure: he is tough, aggressive, cruel, tenacious, mystical. He loves action, and he acts by instinct. His body and mind are as hard as steel but also as sensitive as an ack-ack predictor. He learned the technique of revolution as a Japanese military attaché by watching Russian barricades in 1917. By 1931, he commanded a heavy-artillery unit in Manchuria, and was one of those responsible for the Manchurian incident of that year. Five years later he was one of the plotters in the bloody "February Revolt," in which many Government leaders were killed...