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Only contact with the surface was a telephone that transmitted their voices in sonar waves to a listening device on the mother ship. Part ,vay down, it conked out, and the Trieste nen drifted on down, utterly isolated from outside contact. Probably the mother ship had drifted sideways and the sonar waves were not strong enough to penetrate at an angle. When the bathyscaph reached bottom, contact was reestablished. From seven miles down, Walsh's voice reached the listeners, faint but clear...
...hand, the Communists called a general strike. Both sides could ponder the result: nearly 40% of the workers struck, but over 60% did not. Paasikivi patched things up by appointing Communist-Liner Eino Kilpi as Interior Minister, and Finland's No. 1 woman Red, Hertta Kuusi-nen, as Minister without Portfolio. The Reds called off their half-successful strike; the kid'gloves were still...
...Oberammergau, Germany, is apparently acceptable to Adolf Hitler, but has been postponed this year on account of the war. Considered the most important of the Passion Plays, it was first produced in 1634. But in 1932 a troupe of Passion Players emigrated to the U. S. from Lünen, Germany, where they claimed their play had been given ever since 1242. One of them was Josef Meier, seventh-generation Passion Player. He had their drama translated into "American." with a reorganized troupe began acting it in various U. S. towns, and looking for a permanent home to replace...
...Unto Seppänen's Sun and Storm (Bobbs-Merrill, $2.50) traces the rise of a Finnish peasant to wealth and power. Sombre, heavy, conscientious, its handicap is that too many sombre, heavy, conscientious peasant novels have preceded...
...weiss 'nen Hügel, wo man Quendel...