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...leading agricultural States, with week after week of drying wind and blazing sun, everyone was talking of 1934, the year of the Great Drought. In both 1930 and 1934, reported the U. S. Weather Bureau, "the situation was not nearly so critical at the end of June. . . . Pasture lands, hay, oats, spring wheat and truck crops have been hardest hit. Very little pasture is now available between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. . . . Livestock shipments are becoming heavy because there is no pasture or water...
...first book, The Burning Wheel, a volume of poems. After the War he became an art, music and dramatic critic, was on the staff of London House and Garden when, in 1921, he published his first novel, Crome Yellow. The dominant note of that book, as of Antic Hay and Those Barren Leaves which followed it, was one of unamiable cynicism over the prevailing moods and purposeless behavior of post-War English intellectuals. In Huxley's characters purpose was always identified with hypocrisy, devotion to any ideal with ineffectuality or self-deception. Between long highbrow talks, usually on science...
...change in the producers' lineup was announced. Finding his Pioneer Pictures handicapped by producing color pictures only, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney finally merged it with Selznick International, David Selznick heading the combine with Merian Cooper and Henry Ginsberg at his side. All releases will be through United Artists, Mr. Whitney's contract with RKO-Radio being allowed to lapse...
Like most major U. S. tracks Belmont Park has a camera which automatically photographs the finish of every race. Last week, after the Belmont Stakes, officials studied the photograph of the finish for five minutes, finally revealed the name of one more hard-luck horse. He, John Hay Whitney's Mr. Bones, had finished second by a whisker to Granville. Favorite Brevity was fifth...
...mapped out for months ahead of time. He is thus not likely to come across any unexpected phenomenon. It was a British amateur named J. P. M. Prentice who discovered Nova Herculis, the spectacular "new star" of 1934 (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934). A British music-hall comedian named Will Hay was among the first to see the great white spot which erupted on the belly of Saturn three years ago (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). The orbit of Pluto was theoretically predicted by professionals, but that outermost planet was actually discovered by an amateur named Clyde W. Tombaugh while working...