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...Einstein was ambling down Princeton's Nassau Street one day, waving amiably to tradesmen who gawped at him from doorways, when a Greek restaurateur timidly accosted him, asked him what lay outside the bounds of the known universe. The professor grinned, said: "Ja, do not worry; you don't go out there...
...Keeping up-to-date, Pins and Needles, in its political skit, Four Little Angels of Peace, last week gave Angel Adolf Hitler some new lines: Now I've got the Sudeten There's no need for waitin', Ja wohl, all my plans are now surer...
...final Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank number, with the audience joining in and yelling its head off over: Schnitzelbanko, Monster Franco, Fascist Yoke, Spanish Folk, Serene Impunity, Chinese Unity...
...prelate who covets no martyr's halo is Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, who advised Austrians to vote ja in the plebiscite, was supposedly rebuked by the Vatican, and voted ja himself with a Nazi salute (TIME, April 18). Last week the Christian Century, able U. S. nondenominational weekly, published an article by Martin Schroeder, Lutheran student of German church affairs, which offered a novel but specious explanation of Cardinal Innitzer's actions. It is simply that ''Cardinal Innitzer has made a strong bid to head a national German episcopate," a church accountable only...
...Galen was visiting in Rome. Five days before the Austrian plebiscite (see p. 23), he was drafted by the Holy See to do a diplomatic job of work on a colleague-Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer and the Austrian bishops had admonished Austrian Catholics to vote Ja in the plebiscite, had subscribed that admonition with a fervent "Heil Hitler" (TIME, April 11). The Pope summoned Cardinal Innitzer to the Vatican for an explanation...