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...through what is now Italian territory, on which practically all the traffic is Italian. The only way the colony can get to the sea without using the line is by way of the new but much longer highway from Addis Ababa to Assawa (not to be confused with the dead-end military road from Assab south to the Somaliland border...
...when Pylon was published three years ago. with a high-pitched story of aviation that bore no relation to his other novels, critics began to wonder if he had any plan at all. And when Absalom, Absalom! appeared in 1936, it looked as if he had been laying out dead-end streets in the wilderness...
...fumes in the basement corridors of Lowell House Monday were caused by a dead-end main on Holyoke Street leaking through the wall of the cellar it was reported today. Up to early yesterday morning workmen of the Cambridge Gas Company were drilling and shopping the street in front of the Cambridge Athletic Building in an effort to remedy the hazard. There is no gas piped into Lowell...
...week of Mr. Hull's predecessor, Republican onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Lawyer Stimson's well-meant "Stimson Doctrine," which persuaded virtually all nations not to recognize Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo (TIME, March 7, 1932), led the Great Powers down the deadest dead-end street of latter day diplomacy and in that street they are still stalled. Last week ingenious Statesman Stimson, in an open letter to the Press, clarioned: "All the elements for moral leadership for this crisis lie in the hands of the President. He has but to use them...
Designer Jo Mielziner scores one game toward an artistic rubber for Winterset the moment the curtain rises. Up from the shadowy dead-end of a Manhattan slum street rises a pylon of Brooklyn Bridge, the span sweeping out of sight high overhead with a sparse twinkle of lights. Beneath this dark serenity Playwright Anderson's people go furtively about their sinister business. With classic disregard for the laws of probability, almost everyone concerned in a 15-year-old payroll robbery for which a celebrated radical was wrongly executed, come together. There is Trock, the consumptive killer who engineered...