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...call him "The Bull." Olympic athletes of 1936 remember him, Lieut. General Eduard Dietl, as organizer of the winter sports program at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. His division of mountain troops, which he trained himself and led, as he did all things, with fierce personal daring through the Carpathians in last autumn's Polish campaign, was bottled up when British destroyers and the battleship Warspite blasted into Narvik on April 12. Steely and aquiline, Bull Dietl is said to have gone aloft in a warplane to call his friend Adolf Hitler in person by radio telephone. Hitler commanded his other generals...
Unlike strip-teasers, painters usually do their work in private. But when Pennsylvania State College, last autumn, offered Painter Henry Varnum Poor $4,500 to paint a huge mural on a wall in its Old Main Building, it stipulated that Poor's working hours should be open to the public...
...Australia Nationalist Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, who faces an election next autumn, was busy fighting anti-war propaganda and a majority of Australian Labor was believed hostile to conscription...
...appeared to vie with H. G. Wells's Anticipations or The Sleeper Awakes. But this week one did. The First to Awaken is Granville Hicks's first considerable work of fiction. It would seem to indicate that when Writer Hicks resigned from the Communist Party last autumn he began to live again. Nicely, almost winningly written, in a sort of First Reader style, and full of sunny, skillful little pen drawings by Collaborator Richard Bennett, the book should fascinate those readers who would just as soon skip the next 100 years if the next 100 years are going...
King Leopold had vigorously cultivated friendship and common interests with The Netherlands. He joined Queen Wilhelmina twice last autumn in trying to secure peace by mediation. Said he: "Side by side with Holland, Belgium stands." She joined him, meanwhile, with a Dutch preparedness program which, while not calculated to do more than delay Germany until Allied reinforcements arrived, was a wide departure from her unarmed neutrality in the last war. It helped cover Belgium's vital interests to the north. Wilhelmina was urged to adopt it by patriarchal Hendrikus Colijn, long her most trusted adviser. Last week the Dutch...