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...March of Time, which opens at the University tomorrow, is a comprehensive and intelligent piece of reporting. Although the audience expects to see nothing but the underground forts which Minister of War Andre Maginot began in 1928, exclusive interior shots--of mess halls, shower rooms, gun turrets and lookout posts--form less than half the picture, for the title refers to the whole military organization of a peace-time democracy. The Government's solution of how to make a people militarized but not militaristic is well shown with pictures of the drab uniforms and hard work that go with "service...
Although he doesn't intend to assign additional men to the House district, Apted said that special locks or higher grills would probably be installed where needed. Certain that the crimes were perpetrated by youthful vandals, the Yard policy forces are on the lookout for the better known younger Cantabrigians...
...absentmindedness, his incredible stories about himself ("I tell people I do things, and they believe me," he complains) and the goofy titles he gives his works. Sample: Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals. Of his wife, who carefully checks over all his compositions, on the lookout for unintentional plagiarisms, he says, "She's a regular musical blotter...
Last week, Captain Donald John Munro, R.N., C.M.G., opened the 1938 season by issuing a prospectus for Loch Ness Monster Co. Captain Munro announced that he would soon issue shilling shares to finance active research. He proposes to build three lookout towers, each equipped with a telephoto camera, range finder, stop watch, powerful binoculars, sound apparatus like that used for detecting the presence of submarines. L. N. M. Co. will determine Nessie's size, her speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North...
...head, although the latter is regarded locally as fabulously high.*. . . Panda pelts are a drug on the market. Yesterday I was offered four, at 8 American dollars apiece. . . . Since the bottom may drop out of the giant panda boom, the natives have been tipped off to be on the lookout for live specimens of the golden-haired monkey, another animal peculiar to this region which heretofore has never been kept successfully in captivity...