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"What the World needs most," says Orthologist Charles Kay Ogden, ''is about 1,000 more dead languages - and one more alive." Seeing the modern Babel as the principal barrier to worldwide communication, commerce and science. Ogden cast about for a linguistic ladder. Such manufactured lingos as Esperanto, Volapuk...
War. Pacifists say that as civilization progresses, war should decrease. To prove that, in the past, the reverse has been true, a historical war chart was exhibited by two Russian expatriates. The chartmakers plotted the amount of war in the Occidental world from 500 B. C. to 1925 A. D...
Keeper of the Keys (adapted by Valentine Davies; Sigourney Thayer producer). This vehicle for the late Earl Derr Biggers' famed Detective Charlie Chan largely goes to prove that the wily inspector and his ponderous Chinese proverbs are better off on the screen or between book covers than on the...
What strikes modern readers of Genji most surprisingly is its up-to-date-ness. The psychological novel is apparently no modern invention after all. Formal, slow-moving, ceremoniously polite, Lady Murasaki's court romance is peopled by very human beings (some 800 in all). Hero is Prince Genji, illegitimate...
In Philadelphia, at the 3Qth Penn Relay Carnival: Manhattan (McGeogh, Burns. Ryan, Crowley) won the 2½ mile medley relay in world's record time (10 min. 14 sec.) with N. Y. U. second, Cornell third. Joe McCluskey of Fordham won the 3,000-metre steeplechase for the third...