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According to Dr. Schmitt the "Corporative State'' was to be achieved by dividing German business into twelve groups, each with a "Group Leader" sitting in the Grand Economic Council. This division has been made and on the Council sit Steel Tycoons Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen. Beyond this point, however, the Nazi "Corporative State'' is still on the shelf...
...other: Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen...
Last May Mt. Wilson Observatory's Walter Baade and Caltech's Fritz Zwicky called the matter of supernovae to the attention of the National Academy of Sciences. Last week, in The Physical Review, they brought out further details. They are inclined to believe supernovae explode so violently that they cease to exist as ordinary stars. On the surface protons and electrons coalesce into neutrons; the neutrons "rain" down toward the centre of gravity and, having no repellent electrical charges, pack close together. End product is a "neutron star"?a small, dead, enormously dense lump of matter...
...Minehan learned some useful tips on the art of begging. Said one adept: "Poorly dressed men with a grouch and a mean look are often the best prospects because they don't get hit so much." He learned to understand such lingo as: "I'm on the fritz, see? And I carries the banner slinking harness bulls. Until glims. Then I batters private plunging like a gandy dancer and red bulls sock into the old heavy-foot himself. 'Tooting ringers for a scoffing?' he says. 'Come wid me, I'll give you a scoffing...
Most notable were Director Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis), on his way to Hollywood for the second time; Director Howard Estabrook, who had been in England making notes for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's forthcoming David Copper field; Novelist Hugh Walpole who, as a vice president of the Dickens Society, had signed with MGM's Associate Producer David Selznick to help keep the Dickens novel from "reeking of America." To ship newsmen Producer Selznick functioned as advance agent for an even more distinguished Hollywood prospect: Britain's onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George.* Producer Selznick. back from a month abroad with...