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Sweden denied that the firing was her Navy or Army at artillery practice. The British Admiralty maintained its usual taciturnity. Nor was there any explanation for prolonged heavy firing heard four days later off Bergen, Norway. There mighty detonations shook houses of fisherfolk. and reverberations of small-calibre firing sounded for 14 hours. But the British Admiralty said it knew of no naval engagement in the area. So the "Second Battle of Jutland" remained a mystery. But it revived talk that perhaps some day soon the British would try to force their way into the Baltic, to cut off Germany...
Radio Luxembourg, whose transmitter in the little grand duchy is within sight of the German border, subsided at the outbreak of the war, has not been heard since. Radio Normandie, like all other French stations, has been put under military supervision, now devotes most of its time to propaganda, none to merchandising. To supply both stations with sponsors and commercial material, U. S. agencies like J. Walter Thompson, Blackett-Sample-Hummert, and Erwin, Wasey have for the last several years been doing brisk London businesses...
...Iowa as its president, resolved to make it the "Athens of the West." But he failed to get along with the trustees, quit after two years, be came director of the American College of Surgeons (a hospital-improvement society). One day a Pittsburgh trustee, the late Alfred Reed Hamilton, heard him make a speech to Pittsburgh surgeons, exclaimed: "There's the next chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh...
Last fortnight the trustees heard their committee's report, discussed it for four hours. At the end, Dr. Bowman stalked out, frowning. Text of the report was withheld, but "Little John" handed newsmen a "summary." The summary saved Dr. Bowman's face but applied an unmistakable boot in the pants. Its gist...
Before David is tossed skallyhooting out of his paradise and his ephemeral inheritance, some excellent war talk is heard from, among others, an aged and resigned Italian prince. None of it is more interesting than the implication of the book itself: that the pre-1914 ideals of scientific truth and romantic honor, handed on to David in his father's good English blood, made him an unwelcome guest in the period between wars. Richard Aldington's bright, reckless style has improved since Death of a Hero, his epigrams are neater (though subject to an appalling tendency to show...