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...Eight hours later-with a two-hour dinner intermission-they catch Speaker William E. Barnard's words ending the day's session. Although the broadcasts have long since lost their novelty, guesstimators swear that for big debates half the Dominion's radios pick up Australasia's most powerful station (2YA, 60 kilowatts...
...strict truth about carnivorous plants (The Carnivorous Plants; Chronica Botanica Co., Waltham, Mass; $6) is the business of McGill University's Emeritus Professor of Botany Francis Ernest Lloyd. After twelve years' work, field trips in South Africa, Australasia and North America, he has published the first comprehensive treatise on the subject since Charles Darwin's Insectivorous Plants...
Victory was OWI's answer. It will be printed in six languages, shipped bimonthly to all accessible parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and to U.S. territorial possessions-not to Latin America. OWI Outpost Bureau men will strive to expose as many millions of readers as possible to it. Current plans: 225,000 copies in English, 50,000 in Afrikaans, 75,000 French, 75,000 Portuguese, 40,000 Spanish, 75,000 Arabic; total, 540,000. Victory will sell for the foreign equivalent of 25?, will be doled out free to people the U.S. wants to impress...
Waiting for Japan's expected Thailand-Singapore-Netherlands East Indies-Australasia play, which might come first or second, last week everybody concerned gave anxious tongue. Everybody, that is, except No. 3 on the list, the Indies...
Back in London after barnstorming for a month across Australasia, Noel Coward told countrymen that his one-man war agency A.E.A. (An Englishman Abroad) had raised ?10,000 for the Red Cross. Duty done, Patriot Coward, who reckoned he had wrung 1,400 hands a day during his concert tour, now hoped "my brains are of more service to my country than my body...