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From the March of Time newsreel about Palestine, the Board last month cut all scenes showing German Nazi persecution of Jews. The official explanation was that it had all happened some time before and it was unnecessary to remind people of it. From the March of Time newsreel about Ethiopia, the Board cut all evidences of British armed force, including naval guns, marching men and officers toasting the King. From the newsreel about France's Fascist organization, the Croix de Feu, it cut all indications that the late Alexandre Stavisky was protected by grafting high officials and that...
...does seem peculiar that certain members of the Harvard Faculty are unable to resist the lure of the siren's pen, and the happy knowledge of having crashed the front page or the newsreel. The job of the professor is to teach,--not to make dilletante statements known not to be true. Possibly through the higher branches of mathematics, on can derive something from nothing, but mental queerness must be magnified many times before one can equate a "storm" of drunkenness "passing over Harvard" with one isolated, unfortunate case of janitorial abuse. The general sobriety apparent at the recent Lowell...
Students are not above reproach as far as hissing is concerned, however. "For instance," says Sumner, "undergraduates hiss newsreel shots of Roosevelt, the townies return the compliment when Hoover's visage flashes on the screen." From this reaction he deduces that the student body is fundamentally Republican...
Getting clown to brass tacks in Harar last week, New York Times's candid Harold Denny cabled: "The exodus of disappointed 'war correspondents' and camera men from Ethiopia is now well under way after one of the greatest and most expensive flops in journalistic and newsreel history. . . . The Ethiopians have an unmatched talent for procrastination-they dislike doing anything today which possibly can be put off. "The result has been that a hundred or more correspondents and camera men are gnawing their fingernails at Addis Ababa, Harar and Dire Dawa knowing less about the fighting they...
...Sullivan last week for a tremendous twelve-year job of historical research and reminiscence which he had just brought to completion. In the six fat volumes and 3,740 pages of Our Times, of which Volume VI ("The Twenties") was published last week,* Author Sullivan has presented a superb newsreel of the U. S. from 1900 to 1925-its heroes, its villains, its ideas, its sensations, its fun, fads & fancies. "The purpose of this narrative," wrote he in the first sentence of Volume I, "is to follow an average American through this quarter-century of his country's history...