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...York Timesman Frank Kluckhohn interviewed him, severally. But the press does not give up. Every week one crafty newsman, who knows the Emperor's fondness for sweets, sends a 3-lb. box of candy to the Palace with a request for an interview. So far, no dice. "The Emperor's first interviews," explains an Imperial Household official, "have still left a bitter taste with his advisers...
Scientists are always wondering about something, and Dr. Lee R. Dice of the University of Michigan got to wondering about owls. He wondered whether the owl was really such a traditionally wise old bird, whether it could find its way home in the dark-whether, in fact, it was all it was cracked up to be. Dr. Dice built a light-tight "reaction room." There was a perch near the top and a dim, adjustable light. He put a dead mouse on the sand-covered floor, shut an owl inside, and waited for results...
...comeuppance-Wisconsin-born Author Heth has made a fast-moving short novel. His slightly lopsided characters look startlingly real in the smoky, harshly lit room where little Bergson sweats over, a two-bit bet and a stranger's trembling hands stake $8000 on one roll of the dice...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...
...Reason, God did not altogether concur in their plan. He continued to turn out many odd and upsetting creatures-parsons who were hanged, poets who went mad, lords who started riots, scholars who drank ink, dukes who lost ancestral estates on a throw of the dice. Or, if a man of reason appeared, he might be almost too rational : Admiral Byng, on the morning of his execution, blandly "took his usual draught for the scurvy...