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...other details of the New Order's Plünderpraxis (sack technique) were corroborated last week in Manhattan by Constantine George Cotzias, 49, Minister-Governor (Mayor) of Athens until the city fell last April. If Mayor Cotzias were in U.S. politics he would inevitably be known as Big Con, for he is 6 ft. 4 in. tall and when he steps on the scales they whimper out 286 lb. He has blazing brown eyes and a magnificent head. With him are his wife, who headed the hospitals of Athens during the gallant six-month struggle, and three children, including...
...newest, weirdest theories in science-the existence of contraterrene or "reverse matter"-was argued pro & con last week when the Society for Research on Meteorites met at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. While the atoms of normal matter are made up of negatively charged electrons surrounding a positively charged nucleus of protons and neutrons, in contraterrene matter the charges are assumed to be reversed: the electrons are positive (positrons), the nucleus negative...
...Remember, gentlemen, that in those days everything was slow, slow, in-con-ceivably slow...
Tchaikovsky: Francesco da Rimin (London Philharmonic Orchestra, con ducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Colum bia; 6 sides; $3.50). The storms of Hell swirling about Dante's damned lovers Paolo and Francesca, were never driver more furiously...
...from the New York World, terms the erection of such a monument "an insult to God," an enduring memorial "to the shame of Harvard and nothing else," because it would list the dead of both sides. The Alumni Bulletin of this period is full of such letters, pro and con. After America entered the war, of course, all thoughts of having a "neutral" memorial were abandoned; but it is interesting to note that there is now a plaque in Memorial Chunch, engraved in Latin, on which are several German names...