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...When he fled Germany to Switzerland last February, the Zurich Municipal Council canceled two sold-out concerts he was sched uled to lead. Three days later, Furtwängler conducted in the Swiss industrial town of Winterthur, and the fire department had to turn hoses on 4,000 workers demon strating outside the hall. Since then, Furtwängler has been writing a symphony...
...virtues of the machine, which underlies the whole picture, is soberly set forth but not very convincing. But much more of the film concerns the comedy of archaic machinery, and that comes off much better (with expert help from James Gleason as an auto salesman, Chick Chandler as a demon fairgrounds aviator, and Fred MacMurray as a grease monkey...
Died. William Eugene ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, 82, genial, world-famed prohibition zealot; of a bladder ailment; in Binghamton, N.Y. No fainthearted saint, Boozebuster Johnson admittedly lied, bribed, even downed drinks to pile up evidence against the Demon Rum. Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to combat bootlegging in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), he got 4,400 convictions, lost five deputies, shot. On a teetotaling world tour in 1919, he cheerfully lost an eye but won admirers in a free-for-all slugfest with unregenerate London tipplers. Quiescent since 1929, Crusader Johnson once confessed: "The more I talked, the wetter the country...
...demon step test which every incoming Freshman must take is a direct outgrowth of treadmill experiments, as the method of measuring fatigue in relation to heartbeat acceleration was developed by the Fatigue...
...back in Washington-the men who polish chairs to win a war. This week a desk man with high priority in their thoughts was an officer upon whose planning their whole battle depends: a pale little staff officer in Washington who speaks with a soft voice and is a demon for getting things done. His name: Major General LeRoy Lutes...