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Varves and Summers, As the geologists fanned and mopped themselves in a temperature of 91°, Dr. Ernst Valdemar Antevs, who was born in cool Sweden and now lives in cool Maine, blandly told them they were enjoying a period of cool summers which began 4,500 years ago and would last 6,500 years more. Germany's Dr. Rudolf Spitaler first suspected that the northern hemisphere has warm summers when the eccentricity of earth's orbit swings it close to the sun during the northern summer...
...showed his good sense by filling his galleries not with mediocre pictures but full-sized German color reproductions of famed European masterpieces, valued at from $10 to $25 apiece, most of them printed by the famous commercial litho graph family of Adolf Hitler's best friend, booming, excitable Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl of Munich...
...professor of music. With that inappropriate calm which is his chief distinction, Crosby yodels songs called "Learn to Croon," "Play Ball," "Moon-struck," ''The Old Ox Road." Paramount, more versatile than its competitors, has two types of musical pictures. Those in which Maurice Chevalier is directed by Ernst Lubitsch are for metropolitan consumption. The others, of which this is a fair sample, contain as many radio clowns and crooners as possible, are intended to delight rural cinemaddicts whose tastes in diversion have been shaped by wireless. Thus, College Humor contains George Burns and Gracie Allen...
...Propagandist Frank said "Turks'" he meant Chancellor Dollfuss and the Jews, knew that by "one country and one people" he meant a Germany-Austria combine. Next day Austrians were primed with a counter-motto, "Austria forever," as the descendant and namesake of the man who delivered Vienna, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, led the Heimwehr battalions into Vienna. Opposite the balcony of Schonbrunn Palace where stood Chancellor Dollfuss, the battalions smartly executed "Eyes! Right!" The eyes went back to "Front!" slowly because little Dollfuss faced them in the black cap, black trousers and green grey tunic...
...Darrah, T. S. Deland, A. F. R. Dolan, R. M. Drydale J. F. Ducey, W. H. Durfee, R. C. Ernst, W. S. Fitz, H. W. Foster, E. J. French, Timothy Fuller, J. H. Gilbert, G. G. Glidden, J. H. Goulder. J. G. Grady, A. G. Grant, W. D. Hard-wick, R. W. Harper, W. C. Hartridge, R. O. Hein, G. M. Hixon. Peter Jay, W. W. Jeffers. E. M. Kahn, Shaun Kelly, Francis Keyes, J. T. Kilbreth, J. H. Krug. J. L. Kunen...