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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Janizary Corcoran's favorite wind tunnels for testing political balloons, a handsome tribute to Mr. Murphy and a serious discussion of his qualifications to succeed the late Justice Cardozo. Excerpts: "When Murphy was judge of the recorder's court he kept a little cardboard placard behind his desk where only he could see it. It read: If you must err, err on the side of leniency...
Scorch Hankow? No sooner had Canton fallen than the Japanese announced their military timetable now called for the capture of Hankow by November 3", "The Sacred and Imperial Birthdate." This week, far ahead of schedule, the advance Japanese forces, behind a murderous airplane and artillery bombardment, hammered into Hankow. Chinese military heads, unwilling to stage a bloody last-ditch defense, abandoned the city, leaving squads behind to dynamite anything of value to the Japanese. Terrorized Chinese clamored at the barricades to Hankow's foreign areas as flames roared through the city. Generalissimo Chiang enplaned for a new military headquarters...
...Night had gathered her sable robes over the highest cliffs, and my ship reached through a shoreless sea of silver cloudlets brushed with the glint of the moon and myriad jewels in the dome above. Earth was behind as though my soul itself had left it. Heaven must be like this, I said...
...Manhattan Frederick Redefer's headquarters are off Riverside Drive in a four-story brownstone building, filled with books and Progressive pupils' paintings (visible behind him on TIME'S cover). In his spare time he goes to parties, skis, plays tennis, sometimes rises at 6 a. m. to go figure-skating...
Kirkland ran away with yesterday's inter-House track meet on Soldiers Field, chalking up a total of 46 1/2 points to Lowell's 31, Winthrop's 13 1/2, Eliot's 13. Leverett, Dudley, and Adams lagged behind with seven, four, and three points apiece. There were 65 entries, six more than in last year's meet...