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...Little Indians (by Agatha Christie; produced by the Messrs. Shubert and Albert de Courville) is a lavishly murderous English mystery which acts out the nursery rhyme of the ten little Indians almost to the point of "-and then there were none." Mysteriously bidden to a house party on a lonely island, ten people find no host to greet them, only a gramophone solemnly charging each of them with having at some time committed a murder. Then one of them-the point, of course, being who-starts murdering the others at ten-minute intervals; and while he is busy with booby...
Area of Doubt. German communiqués said, with fierce insistence, that the situation in the Balkans was well in German hands. They said that the estimated 34 Italian divisions in the Balkans were being peaceably disarmed and replaced by German divisions. They said that the Italians, bidden by British Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson to "turn out the Germans," were making trouble only in "minor instances...
That was the time-May 5, 1936-when Italian legions completed their conquest of Ethiopia. Then Mussolini had bidden his proud followers to "lift up their standards, their weapons and their hearts and greet the new empire which after 15 centuries again reappears upon the fateful hills of Rome...
This incident is only a climax in a reign of terror for New York City teachers. Recently teachers have had their eyes blackened by students, been hit by rocks, pelted with blackboard erasers. One girl has struck at least nine teachers, who are for bidden to lift a finger (though a male teacher recently risked his job to trounce a boy who had insulted a woman teacher...
...dictator over 12,000,000 apprehensive citizens in eight States and Alaska, General DeWitt was credited by the Army with having done a superb administrative job. Since Pearl Harbor, without fuss, he has moved thousands of Coast Japanese to places of safekeeping for the duration, has closed race tracks, bidden Pasadena's big Rose Bowl game go East...