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Last week Olympic track & field stars, including Jesse Owens who was considering a $40,000 vaudeville offer from Comedian Eddie Cantor, had scattered to compete in exhibition meets at London and elsewhere. Meanwhile, at Berlin, swimming was the plat du jour...
Jibed Madrid's Sol: "Nowhere have the police and judicial organizations given more manifest proof of impotence than in the U. S." Paris' Jour informed its readers that U. S. law "has proved insufficient to protect against gangsters men whose glory shines upon their country...
Other poems and stories listed in the table of contents are: "The Nursery", by J. C. Walcott '34; "Petit Jour", by R. S. Fitzgerald '34; "Forty Days and Forty Nights", by James Laughlin, IV '27; "Masks", by J. J. Slocum '36; "God's in His Heaven", part four of a novelette by M. L. Anshen '33; and "Goodbye", by W. P. Blanc...
...Several pronunciations of Jehol are equally permissible. The "J" is pronounced either like R in ran or like the French J in jour. The "L" is silent in China proper, is sounded by Manchurians. According to the standard "Wade System" of rendering phonetics into English, Jehol is pronounced "Ruh-huh" and Manchukuo is pronounced "Mahndrowgwoh...
...month; but not for the august Times, which printed a stodgy shot of the Columbus Circle speechmakers. Through its .Wide World syndicate the Times offered exclusive morning paper rights to the print, sold it to the tabloid Daily News for $30. Evening rights went to Hearst's Jour nal which five-columned it beneath the caption: "The Camera Sees Love. Drama. Crime, Tragedy and Probable Death...