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...organized by her, scavenging was a jittery version of the old-fashioned treasure hunt. The contestants paired off in the East Foyer, received sealed envelopes listing bizarre objects which they were expected to fetch in an hour and one-half. At a gun's bark they bolted for the elevators and rushed out into the night to find the following items...
Almost Kiplingesque was Governor Norman's speech. Britain had grown great by evolution, he declared, while other nations tried revolutionary panaceas essentially un-British. "We shall have many difficulties and much criticism," cried Governor Norman, "but I console myself with this thought: 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes...
...sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark...
...pathologists have found that elms are now being killed by a fungus, Graphium ulmi. The blight reached the U. S. in 1930 in some Carpathian elm logs shipped from Le Havre. It accompanies the beetle Scolytus multistriatus. This is a small, short-beaked beetle which nips the tender elm bark and shoots near the buds. Graphium ulmi enters the wounds. First external sign of the disease is the wilting and yellowing of leaves. Internally twigs become streaked with brown. The elm is doomed and must be drastically pruned or felled. All cuttings must be burned to prevent further spread...
Adolf Hitler's electioneering bark that when he became Dictator "Heads will roll in the sand!" ended factually in the sharp-bitten order of Sub-Dictator Hermann Wilhelm Goring to revive the medieval headsman's axe and chopping block in executing criminals duly condemned by Prussian courts to Death (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week three heads rolled off bloody blocks in the courtyards of Berlin prisons and a prominent Nazi official furnished correspondents with beheading facts...