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...enthusiasts, eagerly sniffing the chill autumn air for snow last week, suddenly found a healthy January blizzard raging in their samovar. For Emile Allais, who last February at Chamonix won the International Ski Federation's World Championship by taking firsts in the slalom and downhill races, laid down a new and highly controversial rule for skiing. All skiing turns should be abandoned, said Champion Allais, excepting the pure Christiania and the parallel Christiania. The French Ski Federation heartily concurred with its champion and, when his Le Ski Français was published last week at Bellegarde, a small town...
...deciding to send Lord Halifax to Berlin to confer with Hitler, (see p. 22), rushed back to London in the state of overexcitement which has put him to bed several times before at tense moments (TIME, April 15, 1935, et seq.), announced he had "gone to bed with a chill." Viscount Halifax's departure for Berlin was speeded up by one day, and the New York Times learned that "humiliated" Mr. Eden had "tried to resign" and was "on the verge of resignation again." U. S. women's clubs, which have been cabling Ambassador Davis plea after plea...
...streaks widened in the east, the young Armenian climbed the scaffold, calmly told his grim-faced audience that "an insult motivated my crime." In an ironic gesture he willed the revolver he used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...
...Caldwell and Photographer Bourke-White went down to look things over. After a year and a half of investigation they returned with a skeletonized, unemotional array of case histories, native opinion, commentary and camera evidence on the drearines's and degradation of plantation workers' lives that will chill the stomachs of Northern readers, may remove what charm remains for them in Mammy songs...
...chill quiet of a Virginia dawn last week, a small vessel lapped its way into the Chesapeake Bay toward Norfolk. Aboard was the man who for nearly three weeks had been the world's most sought after newspaper figure. With little of the understanding of or co-operation toward the press which characterized him when he was making glowing headlines far himself as the Senate's Great Investigator, Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, whom newspaper investigation had just revealed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. was slipping home from Europe as quietly as possible...