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...Europe. There have been problems and disturbances of our own, of course,--problems grave enough to produce a tension in the most serene of temperaments. But the tension in the last few years has certainly been heightened by the emotions generated in our collective psyche by the horror and dread of what we have seen in Europe...
...breakfast, alone, in a far corner of the dining-room, hidden by the eager, gossipping headlines of my newspaper from the stricken faces of my fellows bowed down by the dread anticipation of today's examinations. The war half over for me, with two examinations passed and almost forgotten and two waiting several days hence. Across my mind a quick flash of business cycles, wage differentials, currency restrictions, and then the determinations to forget these dolorous tasks for yet another day until Cambridge may become less like the Belgian Congo and more like Cambridge...
...quoted a partly identified business executive as talking bloodthirstily about a White House assassination. Quoting "a New York specialist," the pink sheet, in another issue, had described the President's Southern fishing jaunt as a disguised health trip necessitated by his being found in the coma of a dread disease. The purport of these quotations being outrageously untrue, libelous and incendiary, the White House did not wish to dignify them by denial but put the case of the McClure Syndicate up to the Washington news fraternity to deal with in its own way, for its own honor...
Music is real, music is earnest to Mischa Mischakoff. He teaches 22 pupils at the American Conservatory of Music, runs his own string quartet. He plays the piano almost as well as the violin. Students dread Mischakoff's caustic tongue but know that, at parties, he is a good fellow. A bachelor, he likes swimming, plays ping-pong gladly and badly, appears with hair mussed and bushy, clothes drooping as though too big for him. As a violin trader he is ready, shrewd, almost always wins. He regrets leaving Chicago but says he could not resist...
...Stalin fortnight ago got after the long-time chief of his Secret Police, dread Genrikh Yagoda (TIME, April 12). Whether or not Yagoda was squealing confessions under pressure of Ogpu third degree last week, the State in its newsorgans suddenly foamed with rage about Yagoda, using "Russian words rarely encountered outside the Government decrees of the time of Peter the Great, causing general wonderment as to the nature of the crime," according to able Herald Tribune Moscow Correspondent Joseph Barnes...