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Last week he filed a crisp account of mating between humans and apes on a Soviet experimental farm, adding as a snapper: "The purpose seems to be to improve the next generation of the Soviet population." That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of the Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal...
Queen Mary barred, anticipated an especially crisp curtsy from the nimblest presentee on the current Court list, California's National Women's Tennis Champion Miss Helen Hull Jacobs...
Last August Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, surveying a map of 1,100 counties in 22 states burned crisp by Drought, remarked that a food shortage was not nearly so serious as a feed shortage. Last week the feed shortage had produced what looked very much like a food shortage. To be sure, there was enough wheat for bread, potatoes were plentiful and the fruit and vegetable crops were good. But for the first time in years consumption of beef and pork had practically overtaken supply...
...suppose that every star becomes a nova at least once in the hundreds of billions of years of its life. If the Sun took its turn next year, next month or next fortnight, the start of the performance would promptly scorch every living thing on Earth to a crisp...
...putting motorboats carried the French and British out from their hotel to Emperor Napoleon's erstwhile palace on an island where Benito Mussolini slept nightly last week in "the Josephine bed." Il Duce, once a reporter covering European conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands that...