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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mainichi, Nichi-Nichi and their Asahi (Morning Sun) rivals are smaller than Metropolitan U. S. dailies, contain less advertising. Otherwise, due largely to Publisher Motoyama's pioneering, there is little essential difference. Even Mutt & Jeff, Min & Andy Gump, Smitty, Jiggs & Maggie hurl pots and tongue-lash each other in Japanese. One printing handicap the Japanese have been unable to overcome-lack of a simplified alphabet. Ideographs necessitate much handwork. A picturesque oldtime method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions...
Japanese are almost 100% literate. One in five reads a Noma magazine. Printed cheaply on thin paper, these magazines were the first to appeal to Japan's masses, contain a shrewd mixture of entertainment, information and morality. "The King's" slogan for them all is "highly entertaining and doing a lot of good...
...Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more respect for poets than for potentates. Born in Teheran, Persia and brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened to be, he served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took to ink. His first books were biographies of Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, Verlaine. No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument...
stars and clusters near the central line of the Milky Way. Hence he reasoned that outer space must also contain an extended cloud of particles, gas or dust Measuring star distances by the strength ot the light they send earthward astronomers have failed to allow for the light's absorption by this cloud...
...sunlight, hence insufficient Vitamin D. The deficiency shows up in the bones as rickets, in the teeth as decay. Primitive northern people, the Eskimo's, suffer very little from rickets or caries. They get their Vitamin D from the great quantities of fish which they eat. Fish oils contain abundant quantities of Vitamin D (TIME. Dec. 12). "None of the usual foods supply enough of Vitamin D," says Johns Hopkins' Professor Elmer Verner McCollum. who in 1922 announced the existence and vital importance of this vitamin...