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...started the current game of frontier sniping along the Khalka River is not clear, but last week the Japanese were ready to call it quits. Kwantung Army communiqués announced the destruction of 39 Soviet Mongol planes, bringing its total claimed bag to nearly 500, but beside some of the earlier paper triumphs this was scarcely worth mentioning. The Japanese have learned that the more smashing victories they claim the rougher the Russians play. While Soviet bombers continued their out-of-bounds forays, nothing more was heard of the Japanese threat to carry the war into Siberia...
...ranking and be selected for the Davis Cup is the ambition of every young man whose tennis game is good enough to win a State or district championship. This week at the toney Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club on the Jersey coast, the cream of the current crop of Davis Cup hopefuls, more enthusiastic than ever because there is no titan like Donald Budge to tower over them this year, will match strokes in the first of the four major grass-court tournaments that annually serve as a showcase for U. S. tennis talent...
...James Couzens, Motorman Roy Dikeman Chapin, Banker Julius Haass, Milkman Jerome Remick-all dead today. A newer generation of motor manufacturers, which never had much time for music, or which was left out of cultural shindigs in the old days, now sits on its hands. The Symphony's current drive for funds brought $150 from Chrysler executives, some $500 from 30 General Motors men, including $250 from President William S. Knudsen. Ford Motors pays $19,500 to the orchestra, which masquerades as the Ford Symphony on the radio...
...Mussolini children* Edda is easily the most outstanding in ability, personality, intelligence. This fact tends to support the long-current story that she is not the daughter of Donna Rachele but rather the product of a grande passion of Benito Mussolini with a Russian woman Socialist in the days when he was a powerless, ranting radical...
...Pinky Smith's real coup was executed in 1938, when in an insulting blob of black type he announced that the Chronicle was fed up with the current warehouse strike, demanded that the warehouse operators and the C. I. O. make peace. The union replied with a suggestion that Editor Smith print the facts or mind his own business. Editor Smith countered with the announcement that "the Chronicle makes it its business to stick its nose into any so-called private row which affects the broad public interest." The union snapped back: "That being the case...