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Turksib (Amkino). Two shining steel rails creep northward under a round bonfire sun into the desert where skinny Mongolians pile up the sand to support them . . . northward into frozen ground, over mountain beds torn out by dynamite, on trestles over glacial rivers. Turksib is a translation of the Russian nickname for the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad, 897 mi. long joining Siberia and Turkestan (TIME, May 12). As Director Sergie Eisenstein dramatized modern brains coming into Russian farm country (TIME, May 19), so now Director Victor Turin tells the story of the building of the Turksib. Turin's newsreel is less interesting...
...that kind of a wind, or no wind, for that matter. His father, Stevenson Crothers, shot too. So did his sister, Alice Crothers, who finished highest (161) of the three women entered for the title. Between rounds they stood near the Scoreboard watching Stevenson M. Crothers' score creep away from the other high guns; listening to other gun ners marvel at his easy style (not hunched up and strangling the gun like more ner vous men), his steadiness, his fourth triumph. Afterwards they helped him carry home his share of the $9,900 worth of prizes - a diamond medal...
...continued: "Any attempt to inculcate hostility to the glorious wines of France is more than deplorable and I, as a Minister and representative of the Government, disavow them. I am about to take steps either to ban the school manuals, into which such heretical doctrine has been allowed to creep, or to have the publishers amend them in such a way as to restore to wine drinking its true character in the eyes ot school children. Wine should be one ot our national glories...
...peace delegates with their chess-like conception of statesmanship. But at the first suggestion to destroy these relics of a barbarian age, to junk battleships and to stop building them, to abolish the submarine, like wary hermit-crabs the delegations retire within their shells. And when they venture to creep out again, it is with the cautious suggestion that weapons of war should be merely limited. Carried to its logical conclusion the absurdity is almost funny, and admirals might fight their duels with swords. But the situation is too pitifully serious...
...impossible for favoritism to creep in, especially in regard to substitutions. Obviously the burden on the captain would be out of proportion to that on any of the other eight men, and the captain's performance would most certainly suffer...