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...Kofoid of the University of California; Charles Manning Child and Cornelis Barnardus van Niel of Stanford; Ross Granville Harrison of Yale; Hugo Theorell of the University of Stockholm; Olenus Lee Sponsler of the University of California at Los Angeles; Lewis Victor Heilbrunn of the University of Pennsylvania; John Desmond Bernal of the University of London. **Including Grew, Malpighi, Leuwenhoek, Wolff, Mirbel, Lamarck, Dutrochet, Meyen, von Mohl, Brown, Purldnje, Brogniart, Braur, Turpin, Dumortier...
Vital spot in the civil war remained the snow-capped Guadarrama Mountains that guard Madrid on the north. There armies of 15,000 Loyalists under General Carlos Bernal and 20,000 Fascists under able General Emilio Mola sparred cautiously for the battle that may end the war. Surprise of the week was verification of the astounding story that when Spain's devious José Maria Gil Robles, Catholic reactionary, was Minister of War ten months ago, he and Fascist Generals Franco and Mola prepared for the present civil war by digging secret gun emplacements all along the Guadarrama ridge...
CONQUISTADOR-Archibald MacLeish- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). To Octogenarian Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a conquistador retired to his estate in Guatemala, there came from Spain Francisco Lopez de Gomara's account of Cortes' Mexican expedition of 1519. The old lion Bernal was aroused. Who was this fine young Professor de Gomara, to be making charts out of battles and histories out of men? Old Bernal fought those battles, knew those men. He could make them live again-blood, bones, the light in their eyes, the sand in their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History...
Beset by 100 townsmen in Tepic, Mexico, when he ordered them to surrender their arms, Commandant Nicholas Bernal staged a one-man battle lasting 29 hours last week, wounded 30 of his assailants, was killed by a bomb...
...soldiers as they sniped at the Yaqui from behind the drawn blinds of the sleeping cars. For 17 hours the siege continued. At last a portentous puffing was heard. A troop train sent by President Calles to rescue his friend, Ex-President Obregon, steamed up, commanded by Generals Bernal and Montano. Soon the Yaqui fled. General Obregon, his equanimity unruffled, slept that night at his extensive rancho...