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...blew the cork off with a letter to Science captioned "What is Summer?" There is no reason in nature, logic or language, declared Professor Sleator, why the seasons should be bounded by the two equinoxes and the two solstices. He wants summer to be June, July and August; autumn, September, October, November; and so on for winter and spring...
...Europe. In an equally significant gesture to the southern Axis partner it announced that the semi-official Vatican newsorgan Osservatore Romano would cease publication. Banned outside Vatican City by the Italian Government because it printed British war communiques, it has lost circulation as rapidly as it gained it last autumn, when Romans discovered its unique (in Italy) impartiality (TIME, May 27). Osservatore Romano will be replaced by a Jesuit-owned paper, Corriere Vaticano, which will feature "artistic and literary subjects...
With these and other problems in hand, Hollywood was a busy town last week. Fifty productions were in the works at eleven studios in preparation for the new cinema season which is heralded each autumn as "Motion Pictures' Greatest Year." Publicity men beat out stories explaining that 1940 would see a swing from heavy drama to relaxing comedy and musicals. At Fox, Darryl Zanuck wound up The Great Profile, in which John Barrymore does a savage satire on his scrambled life. Frank Capra was te diously struggling over his latest comedy, Meet John Doe. Comics Jack Benny and Fred...
...autumn of 1836, tourists at Chamonix, Switzerland, were puzzled by a mysterious group of seven strangers who wore tight-fitting coats, slouch hats, vast cravats. It was next to impossible to tell which were men and which were women. The hotel blotter did not help. One of the strangers was registered simply as Fellowe; musical philosopher; birthplace-Parnassus; traveling from-Doubt to Truth. Others were registered as the Piffoel family; residence-Nature; Coming from-God; Going to-Heaven; Duration of passport-Eternity...
...called tuberculous Chopin: "Mon cher cadavre (My dear corpse)." Comrade Sand's proletarian friends disgusted the pianist. "Chopin was pushed more and more into the role of a delicate, sensitive, and suffering wife, continually brutalized by a busy husband and his circle of coarse friends." One cold autumn morning, sick, coughing, wrapped to the eyes in blankets, Chopin left Authoress Sand forever...