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Cooler Counsels. By week's end the Arab League states had decided not to use their national armies in a war against Zionists. But they would support a volunteer "People's Army" with recruits, supplies and arms. Britain considered banning arms shipments (as the U.S. did last fortnight) to either Jews or Arabs in Palestine. Arab League Secretary-General Azzam Pasha, who had to stay in bed with a cold during the League meetings last week, was confident that the Arabs would find arms. From his sickbed, his lank form swathed in white-&-orange striped flannel pajamas, Azzam...
...diplomatic relations with Russia had been broken, Brazil's House of Deputies was still arguing about what to do with the one Communist Senator (Leader Luis Carlos Prestes) and 16 Deputies who still held office. A bill to cancel the Communists' mandates recently passed the Senate. Last fortnight, it got out of a House committee, whereupon the Communists tried to stall it by proposing no less than 320 amendments. This week, on the floor, they were ready with another tried & true parliamentary technique-the filibuster...
...Tilsitt, off the Champs-Elysées, garbage is normally collected on one side of the street by Henri Paul Sangnier, on the other by Paul Dornand. Last fortnight, Sangnier struck; Dornand did not. The Rue de Tilsitt's housewives solved the problem by leaving all the garbage cans on Dornand's side. For several days Dornand did two men's work, Sangnier none...
...relief, the secret was out. Last week a Fort Worth matron, Mrs. Ruth Annette Subbie, 45, answered her telephone, sobbing with excitement, screamed out the identity of "Miss Hush" (Dancer Martha Graham), and won the biggest heap of prizes in radio history: $21,500 worth. After last fortnight's broad hints (TIME, Dec. 8), the mystery of Miss Hush was no longer very mysterious. For Dancer Graham it had been a big publicity binge. For the March of Dimes it had been worth at least $350,000. For Listener Subbie it was more of the same: winner...
...life, it may at last be dramatically expanding. Two Schweitzer biographies have already appeared this fall: a slick, popular book called Prophet in the Wilderness, by Hermann Hagedorn (Macmillan; $3), and a scholarly book by George Seaver, Albert Schweitzer, the Man and His Mind (Harper; $3.75). Published last fortnight was a third book: Albert Schweitzer, an Anthology, edited by Charles R. Joy (Beacon Press & Harper...