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Died. Dr. Kálmán Darányi de Pusztaszentgyörgy és Tetétlen, 53, onetime (1936-38) Premier of Hungary; after long illness; in Budapest. A pro-Habsburg monarchist, K࣋mán Darányi squelched a Nazi putsch in 1937, lost prestige when he swallowed Naziism after Germany swallowed Austria...
...other obvious notable was Dr.Charles Galton Darwin, mathematician and scientific philosopher of Christ's Col lege, Cambridge, grandson of Charles Dar win, proponent of evolution by natural selection. As president of the section on mathematical and physical sciences, Dr.Darwin delivered a neat talk on logic in science, in which he told a story from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. When Stooge Watson complimented Detective Holmes for a shrewd guess, Holmes pro tested: "No, no, I never guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive of the logical faculty. ... I could only say what was the balance of probability." Detective...
...Mongolia appeared the Dar Khan, barbaric Prince of the Blood, friendly to Chinese. In Peiping he vowed that Japanese agents had offered him bribes to declare the independence of Inner Mongolia and become its puppet ruler, protected by Japan...
Came news last week that the Norwegian Storthing (Parliament) had changed the city's name to "Nidaros" (pronounced Nee-dar-oss)?effective Jan. 1, 1930. To many a Trondhjemmer's ear the sound of "Nidaros" is ugly, coarse, repugnant. Soon 25,000 irate citizens (nearly half Trondhjem's population) mass-met under a lowering sky, furiously handclapped speeches of indignation as rain began to patter, signed under umbrellas a potent petition of protest. On dispersing to their homes they expressed their feelings further by breaking several Trondhjem windows...
Last week the "jiggle" was a boiling, foaming wake wave, and from the Enterprise's short, rakishly tilted funnels spewed enough smoke and steam at roaring forced draft to perceptibly darken the "blue." Behind lay British East Africa and the small, busy port of Dar-Es-Saalam, where Edward of Wales had taken ship. Ahead, beyond the Red Sea, beyond the Mediterranean, beyond Europe and the Channel lay the beloved Sovereign of an Empire. Radio flashes told that pleurisy had been followed by pneumonia, complicated by Bright's disease...