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Rotund, white-bearded Dr. Shull, who looks like Santa Claus, does not feel gypped at having received no royalties so long as he is recognized as the Santa Claus of hybrid corn. But he remarked last week that if he had received the merest fraction of 1? an acre, he would have been able to set up an independent department of botany at Princeton. It rather irks him that, the way things are, botany is corralled in Princeton's department of biology...
...other explanation is that sales of Picassos have long been skilfully manipulated and that Picasso, who knows how good he is, has grown rich by not objecting. The merest page from a sketch book of the Toulouse-Lautrec period fetches $200, and there have been at least two sales of paintings in the U. S. for a reputed price of about $25,000 each...
...Sparrow," a comedy presented by Girvan Higginson and written by Maxwell Selser, is a disconcerted tale of a disconcerted woman. The point of the title is that since God watches the fall of the merest sparorw, surely He will keep an eye on the Thomas's, the central family of the play. He does, more or less, but He takes it off frequently enough to let them get into predicaments that would be very desperate, except that no one, particularly no one in the audience, cares very much anyway...
While Hankow thus bubbled with confidence, Japanese installed at Nanking last week yet another Chinese Government, composed of the merest puppets. Chinese whose names mean almost as little to the Chinese people as Joe Zilch. This outfit, as the Japanese put it, will be "under the umbrella" of Nanking. The business community in Shanghai, both foreign and Chinese, exhibited no sympathy but much relief that there is now a Nanking Government which will get paralyzed currency exchanges going again. Last week the currency situation was such a desperate muddle that a few days after the native dollar was quoted...
...Abdication Crisis there were meetings of the British Cabinet. A patient, drably-dressed crowd almost filled the short blind alley called Downing Street, shouting: "Good old Eden! No more Italy! Down with Musso!" Members of the Cabinet, including Mr. Eden, came & went repeatedly without taking more than the merest notice of the crowd before the official residence of the Prime Minister. Even after Hero Eden had actually handed in his letter of resignation, he only raised his black Homburg hat once or twice, diffidently. To a few friends waiting for him on the steps of the Foreign Office, Anthony Eden...