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...politics that had brought William Randolph Hearst, 78, from San Simeon to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel, whither he summoned his editors and publishers to discuss war policy. Springy of step, looking fitter than he had in years, the old publisher seemed to his admiring Hearstlings well nigh indestructible...
...darkens or dims U.S. cities, their onetime incandescence will be replaced more & more by the ghostly luminescence of pigments which give off light in the dark. Today luminescent pigments are being produced in the U.S. at 500 times their rate before the war. Their makers, well nigh luminescent with delight, hope to produce before year's end 100 times as much as they...
Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom hit Boston yesterday with a thud as of a rotten tomato and with odor to match. Poor gags, far-fetched puns, drawn-out dialogue, and a well-nigh non-existent plot combine to make "Harvard, Here I Come" as a rather tedious ordeal. Except for the local interest in Hollywood's presentation of what bodes ill to become its favorite subject, Harvard, the show is merely another low metabolism slapstick comedy...
...nice things and is a great hand at Plünderpraxis, visited Athens in 1935, Mayor Cotzias showed him the town. One of the sights included the National Archeological Museum. For more than an hour, Göring stayed in the Salon of Mycenaean Antiquities, pop-eyed and well-nigh drooling over the collection of golden swords, daggers, goblets, vases, collars, crematory urns and other priceless objects of pre-Homeric craftsmanship. The next year His Honor visited Berlin and saw Göring, who immediately said: "How's the Mycenaean collection? Is that beautiful stuff! Ach, du lieber...
...plains; all Europe was cold, ranged over by reindeer, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses (see cut, p. 50). Here, arriving probably by migration from North Africa, homo sapiens first appeared in Europe. The Cro-Magnon race inherited or seized the valleys of the small-brained, beetle-browed, long-armed, chinless and nigh speechless homo neandertalensis...