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Died. Frederick Britten Austin, 55, author of many a super-serial historical romance (The Road to Glory); in Weston super Mare, England. Romancer Austin's heroic imagination made his magazine articles prescient. Said he in 1935: "Imagine four million Parisians streaming out of Paris by every road, choking every artery, hindering all military movements, preventing the influx of supplies, paralyzing more or less the nerve centre of the country. That is what is going to happen when the first German bombers appear over Paris...
...Distressed." Knudsenhillman still had troubles to worry about. Scarcely had OPM mopped its brow when word came that a fourth International Harvester plant, the big Chicago McCormick Works, had shut down. And at week's end the Allis-Chalmers dispute was still a mare's-nest. Trouble bubbled anew at Ford, where C. I. O.'s Auto Workers' union gave formal notice (as required by Michigan law) of intent to strike at the Lincoln plant, at Highland Park, at gigantic River Rouge. What worried Knudsen as much as anything was the howl, getting louder & louder...
...Although Mare and his father came to the United States after the pogrom, Mrs. Spiegel remained in Warsaw to settle their financial affairs. She was caught in the war, and Marc believes that being a doctor, she was pressed into service during the six day siege of the Polish capital...
...peace." Last week the British Navy rode the Mediterranean and the Italian Navy was afraid to poke a bowsprit out of port. How nice it would be, Benito Mussolini must have thought wistfully, if the three western Mediterranean powers got together somehow and drove the British out of Mare Nostrum...
...last week he was willing to sell Adolf Hitler his equity in the Balkans for the rescue of his Army from the Greeks. Another Army, or what was left of it, was making dust across Libya, and II Duce was willing to sell France part of his equity in Mare Nostrum for the rescue of that Army from the British. To Spain he was willing to sell another bit of the Mediterranean if Spain would help to close the Strait of Gibraltar. Altogether, having been whittled down to the size of his Mediterranean neighbors, Benito ("We Prefer to be Feared...