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...first Berlin mass meeting since the "Christmas Truce" last week, after attending the funeral of a young Fascist killed in a New Year's Day riot. "If our leader had been Chancellor when this Hitler youngster was killed," cried Baldur von Schirach, "50 Communist leaders would have decorated lamp posts next day! The soul of this dead lad is mightier than the von Schleicher Cabinet...
...Hollywood set, a 150-lb. studio lamp fell, struck unconscious, badly bruised Mary Pickford. Husband Douglas Fairbanks quickly revived...
...Louisville, Ky., Grace Vinning, 9, basked in her bath while her nephew Junior Carter, 6, played with an electric lamp on an extension cord. To see the reflection of the pretty light on the water he held it over Grace Vinning's bath, dipped it up to the socket, electrocuted his Aunt Grace...
...understood created "Seven against Thebes," "The Frogs," "Oedipus Tyrannus." But lesser men followed, and they could not understand. The race of blue-eyed, fair-haired men discovered that the secret of greatness is a mystery not to be taught, rarely to be learned. The Romans came, conquered, and the lamp was extinguished...
...well miss them, for the little auk is a staple of their food supply, "Eskimo lollipops" as Curator Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History calls them. In Greenland the Eskimos will beg the Goddess Nivikkaa, sitting at the bottom of the sea, to lift her lamp and let the little auks come up again...