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...later for deficiency in French. By August he was ready to take and pass another examination, be readmitted. In 1931 he fell ill, had to drop out for a year. Then he came back and plugged away until he was a cadet sergeant and ready to graduate. In the hullabaloo over "Goat" Richardson no one bothered to notice a trim, erect, red-haired Army officer standing back among the onlookers. He was Lieut.-Colonel John Buchanan Richardson Sr., assistant adjutant of the Third Corps Area. Near Ville Savage, France one August day in 1918, as a major in command...
...Ovila Dionne was the thirty-first human mother known to have borne quintuplets (see p. 39). At Yale's 200-acre Anthropoid Experiment Station in Orange Park, Fla. last week was another mother who, with a record unique in biological annals, might well have been jealous of the hullabaloo over the Canadian woman and her offspring. Her name is Mona and she is a 21-year-old chimpanzee. At Orange Park on June 26, 1933, she gave birth to fraternal twins, male & female. The father was an 11-year-old brought from Africa by a sailor. Mona had spent...
...street. unaware that they were missing a feast, might have pointed out more than one reason for the genteel hullabaloo. Thomas Mann is a Nobel Prizewinner (1929). This was his first visit to the U. S. Hitler's victims, if sufficiently presentable, are popular in Manhattan. Author Mann brings no topsy-turvy social message; even a banker is safe in his company. Though some of his books have been best-sellers in Germany, his finespun writing will never appeal to the U. S. masses. But the man-in-the-street, more than half right about the smokescreen, would have...
Within a few years the Antarctic was producing about 70% of the world's oil. Whalers have always cocked a dour eyebrow at the hullabaloo the world makes over explorers. Time & again they have gone to the rescue of an explorer in regions where they had been plying their regular trade for years. When Admiral Byrd went into the Ross Sea in 1929, when the ice was so thick that relatively few whaling expeditions bucked the pack, he found no less than 32 vessels at work. The Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering...
...reduce the trial to common sense. The rest is part of our delightful set-up of criminal justice. There is every reason to believe that this case is conclusive enough to result in the eventual electrocution of the thugs. But there will first be the long hullabaloo of a trial, the endless appeals and decisions, and all the rest of the involved and expensive claptrap which our highly advanced civilization finds necessary in the extermination of its vermin...