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That Samuel Johnson actually wrote what would today be called "funny-papers" is not beyond belief. In the exhibit is a series of eight hand-colored plates entitled "A Lesson for Spendthrifts." Under seven of these amusing caricatures, which were drawn and engraved by Newton and printed in 1794, are verse stanzas signed by Johnson...
Little noticed among the more spectacular news, the Laval triumph in the French Parliament has a potential significance beyond any political speech or "dope" story about the Ethiopian war. After leaders of the various parties, including Fascist and Communist alike, had struck the keynote of unity and faith in democracy, the French Chamber, by an overwhelming vote dissolved the semi-military leagues and prohibited Frenchmen from carrying firearms. True the "freedom of the press" was curtailed by an act making punishable an incitement to assassination, but actually the freedom of the press under any government was never so all-inclusive...
...reporter, has a new and manly aroma about him, while Paul Lukas carries his part adequately, ever attended by his aristocratic Hungarian accent. The star, Miss Francis, photographs nicely, and, her fans will be know, is still as fetchingly incapable of pronouncing the consonant "r" as ever. Beyond this there is little that one can say in her favor, and this department will leave unopened the question of Miss Francis histrionic ability. On the whole "Stella Parrish" is an undistinguished picture, relieved here and there by flashes of a true dramatic nature...
Stating that no man-carrying balloon can ever take scientists above the stratosphere, Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, Harvard University Research Associate in Geophysics in his lecture on "Exploring Beyond the Stratosphere" at the Institute of Geographical Exploration last night stressed the importance of investigating this ionosphere, the most sensitive district for effects of cosmic origin...
Stetson's discussion of the atmosphere beyond the reach of man-carrying balloons will be based on a great deal of personal experience. He spent several years studying in the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, and in the last ten years has witnessed six eclipses from vantage points ranging from Norway to Sumatra...