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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alchemist. Medieval in their great black robes and ermine tippets, a solemn bevy of French judges in Paris last week gave Monsieur Jean de Habdank Dunikowski a chance to prove in their presence that he can transmute other metals into gold by bombarding them with what he calls "Z-rays...
...James Cathedral last week were 20 archbishops, bishops and abbots, in- cluding Archbishop-Coadjutor Georges Gauthier of Montreal, Monsignor Andrea Cassulo, Apostolic Delegate to Canada, Archbishop-Designate Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve of Quebec who is likely to be Canada's next Cardinal. Said Bishop Georges Courchesne of Rimouski in the consecration sermon: "Your courage, Monsignor Turquetil, in overcoming the dread of a discouraging solitude and white silence of the North is explained by your ardent desire to serve God, convert pagans to Catholicism and increase the ranks of the Catholic population...
...particular interest are photographs of Marcel Pagnol, who wrote the French moving-picture "Marius" recently shown in the Geography Building, and of Andre Siegfried, who wrote "America Comes of Age." Other well-known authors represented are Andre Maurois, Jules Romains, and Jean Cocteau. Several Frenchwomen of letters are also shown, including Princess Bibesco and La Comptesse de Noailles...
Some 300 years ago one Daniel Jean-richard, blacksmith of the town of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland, turned from his horseshoeing to inspect an object in the hand of a friend. "Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça?" he inquired...
Beer Preferred. Soon after the airplane St. Didier passed the North African coast in an attempted speed flight from France to Madagascar its wireless called for help. Forced down somewhere in the vast Sahara, the flyers. Jean Reginensi, Robert Lenier, Joseph Touge, were unhurt but thirsty. Rescue planes began hunting, but the stranded flyers could not state their location. For three days the crew continued to flash piteous accounts of their increasing thirst. In return they received messages of love from their families, advice to burn their oil and even their plane as a signal to searchers. On the third...