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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angels with Dirty Faces (James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Dead End Kids; TIME...
...dead of night, Czech soldiers at the disposal of the Carpatho-Ukraine Government, aided by armed members of the SIC, a militant political organization under German auspices, advanced on the border town of Munkacs, awarded to Hungary in the post-Munich territorial revision. Hungarian frontier police and troops met them. A battle began in which the Czech forces used tanks, armored cars and trench mortars...
...armies, and it still flourishes in Poland, Russia and the Balkans. It is transmitted by lice and fleas (hence delousing stations in the World War). The disease is due to a cosmopolitan virus called Rickettsia prowazeki,* which dwells in the intestines of the filthy little insects. Vaccines made from dead typhus viruses provide immunity from the disease, but such vaccines are difficult to make, for Rickettsia prowazeki cannot be easily cultured in artificial mediums, thrives and multiplies best in its natural habitat. Chief European vaccine maker is Professor Rudolf Weigl of the University of Lemberg, Poland. Last week the Paris...
...Declared Dead. Amelia Earhart Putnam, famed aviatrix, lost 18 months ago in the Pacific; by a California court order; in Los Angeles. Day later a plaque was unveiled to her memory at Miami, where she started her last, world-girdling flight...
...years ago Arnold Bennett's mistress, Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, and his wife, Marguerite, published their intimate memoirs. About the same time appeared the memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife, Frieda. While these memoirs spilled plenty of beans, at least they were withheld until their subjects were dead. Not so Half A Loaf, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel by Sinclair Lewis' exwife, Grace Hegger...