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...since the Tennessee monkey trial had there been such clownish witch-hunting as went on in Georgia last week. Cigar-chewing, red-suspendered Gene Talmadge ran amok through Georgia colleges, chasing furriners (i.e. non-Georgians) and Negro-befrienders. "There was a lynching in . . . the Capitol of Georgia Monday," said the Atlanta Journal, describing the ouster of Walter Dewey Cocking as dean of University of Georgia's College of Education (TIME, July 21). At week's end the Governor had knocked out two more important Georgia educators and provoked serious retaliation...
Last week, while the wind whipped in briskly from the Pacific, she did what her makers knew she could do. Major Stanley Umstead, the Air Corps's crack, cigar-chewing test pilot, climbed aboard; his crew of six trailed after him. Stanley Umstead started the four engines from left to right, kicking up a great williwaw of dust as he turned them up. He wheeled the Gargantuan bomber down the field, swung her into the wind, gave her the coal. Rolling hugely down the runway, she picked up her skirts slowly. But she was off, wobbling...
Fifty-six circling minutes later, Stanley Umstead set B-19 down at her new home, March Field, 70 miles away. He walked away from her with his cigar frayed, his eyes narrowed in a grin. He had made a tentative takeoff, a bouncy landing. Said he, chewing his cigar: "I could take her up any time now and have the feel better." He will have plenty of chances. For B19, so big that a telephone had to be rigged for communication from cockpit to wheels while her brakes were being adjusted, is an experimental job. Too slow (200 miles-plus...
...suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, handsome Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires, sadly puffed a cigar, remarked to reporters: "It is not the first time that this has happened and things just take their course." Dr. Thomsen had not yet been invited to leave Washington; the final break in U.S.-Nazi diplomatic relations had not yet been made. But they were badly cracked...
...Georgian teachers, declared: "I never did think these foreign professors were smarter than our own Georgians." << King Peter II of Yugoslavia, 17, reached London safely, prepared to establish his Government-in-Exile there. << John L Lewis Jr. graduated from not-so-laborite Princeton. The labor leader brought his cigar along and watched. << George Weyerhaeuser, famed kidnap victim of 1935, now 15, graduated from a Tacoma, Wash, junior high school. << Joseph P. Kennedy's second-youngest daughter, Patricia, 17, was chosen to bottle-whack the S.S. President Polk, last of the American President Lines' new series of combination freight...