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...commercial broadcast band crackled busily with the call "CQ Conn." For most of the 22,000 amateur radio operators enrolled in the American Radio Relay League were devoting the night to sentiment, reverting to old-time amateur relay methods for the dedi cation of the League's Maxim Memorial Station WIAW (Newington, Conn.). Al though most league members now have power enough to reach WIAW direct, they relayed their dedicatory messages through the stations of fellow members to recall early days before the development of the vacuum tube gave amateurs their present range...
...thing he remembers is when the left-wing press said his Tom Paine should have been written by "a competent Marxist." In a lame conclusion he tells in detail how he wrote each of his biographies, stresses above all the need for complete candor. In the light of this maxim, his own self-biography will seem to most readers a conspicuous exception...
Shigemitsu & Litvinoff. In Moscow, truce grew last week directly out of negotiations carried on for the past three weeks by roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu (who is a great pal of pegleg Correspondent Walter Duranty). The facts about disputed Changkufeng Hill as far as the diplomats could agree last week were: 1) although Moscow claimed the hill under a Russo-Chinese treaty of 1886, for many years it had been completely vacant; 2) Koreans and Manchukuoans had from time to time gone to it on festival pilgrimages unhindered by Red Army...
...Communist rulers was the last of a series of cordial farewells terminating Mr. Davies' 18 months' ambassadorship in Moscow. Most unusual feature of the farewells was a two-hour talk (subjects unrevealed) with Dictator Stalin himself. Two days before their departure, Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff gave a farewell dinner to Mr. & Mrs. Davies and the Embassy staff. Tipping a glass of champagne in a toast to President Roosevelt. Commissar Litvinoff declared there was a "latent mutual sympathy'' between the U. S. and Soviet Russia, asked Ambassador Davies to pass on to America the "unbiased...
...readers got the first volume of Maxim Gorki's lengthiest book. The story of Russian pre-Revolutionary intellectual life, it was called Bystander, revolved around an apathetic, intelligent provincial lawyer, Clim Samghim, who flirted all his life with the revolutionary movement, drifted with the winds of doctrine without ever finding harbor in a cause, a code of belief, a philosophy. Samghim's story was carried on-in so far as it moved at all-in The Magnet and Other Fires. Last week the fourth and last volume, left unfinished by Gorki at his death in 1936. was published...