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Paris had been extremely nervous lest Adolf Hitler win the German election and repudiate the Treaty of Versailles. Massed in the Place de l'Opera, a tense French throng awaited bulletins. Suddenly, when the flash came that Herr Hitler had definitely not been elected, a joyous French cheer went up "Vive Hindenburg! Vive la France...
...Spencer Dickey's account of his discovering the source of the Orinoco River (TIME, Aug. 10). But for a long time he had wanted to speak out about men, institutions and conditions in Latin America which have vexed him. His book turned from a travelog into a philippic. Lest readers doubt his competence to criticize he took care to detail that he has spent but 30 months of the past 31 years outside of South America. For 25 years he was physician & surgeon to mines, railways, sugar and rubber estates in various countries. During vacations he explored...
...Boston or down at the port. Instead, he must somehow be got home and put to bed. But now that is apparently the last thing that classmates do for each other. Even if one meets with an accident, he will be carried anywhere else than the College infirmary, lest the fact of his drunkenness be known. Whatever is said to the contrary, there is not now anything like the amount of drinking or of drunkenness that there used to be, and it decreases regularly and appreciably each year...
When Fredric March takes three drops of medicine in a glass of water, admirers who saw him in his last picture will be momentarily afraid lest he turn into Mr. Hyde. Luckily nothing of the sort occurs. He is a rich villain named Arthur Drake and he is taking strong medicine for a weak heart. The heart is weaker than the medicine is strong, so presently Arthur Drake topples over dead. His disinherited twin brother (also Fredric March in double exposure), who happens to be present, sees the possibilities of this situation. He quickly exchanges clothes with the corpse...
...resolved that Japan should not keep any war spoils she might win (see p. 11). The British Government was passive, inclined to expect a Japanese victory at Shanghai and disposed to let Japan keep reasonable winnings. The French Government, while sympathetic toward Japan, was apathetic except for slight alarm lest a discussion of "treaty rights" in the Orient should lead to discussion of the Treaty of Versailles (which France does not want discussed). The Russian Government was on the qui vive (see p. 20). Thus Japan was not under pressure from any "united front'' presented by the Great...