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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHEELING, W. Va.--A five-hour fire of "suspicious" origin in the Wheeling Machine Products Co. plant today, caused an estimated $1,000,000 damage to property and highly specialized machinery used in producing munition components and other national defense orders...
...written literature of significant quantity ever uncovered" consists of epics, myths, hymns, proverbs. Before the Society, Kramer read a poem, "Inanna's Descent to the Nether World," oldest known version of the universally significant myth of a descent into Hades. This myth, hitherto thought to be Semitic in origin, was taken over by all succeeding civilizations from the Assyrian to the Christian. Still more important, Kramer hopes, will be his translation of Sumerian "forerunners of the ancient myths concerned with the dying god and his resurrection, a group ... of basic significance for a scientific approach to the history...
Ironically, the programs which inspired Yugoslavs to battle had their origin in the WRUL studios of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, which has been supported by Rockefeller, Sloan and Carnegie cash and listeners' contributions since 1935, on the basis of its original purpose to promote international amity. Among those who have needled the Fuhrer over its facilities have been Dorothy Thompson, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Norway's Carl J. Hambro. But none has packed the wallop of cultured, greying, 46-year-old Dr. Svetislav-Sveta Petrovitch, author of last fortnight's appeals to the Yugoslavs...
...listeners knew where the broadcast was coming from. Even studio technicians of Washington's WOL were in the dark. The program was being piped into the station by telephone, but the control panel gave no clue about its origin. Mysteriously unavailable were WOL General Manager William B. Dolph and Program Director Madeline Ensign. The whole thing had a fine conspiratorial flavor, which was quite in keeping with the business at hand-a radio interview with burly, gap-toothed Jan Valtin (real name: Richard Julius Herman Krebs), who has been hiding out fearful of lethal attention from...
There are five essays in the book. The Sportive Origin of the State discovers, with more art than anthropology, the origins of the state in the rapistic longings of proto-Neanderthal youth. The timely essay on The Argentine State and the Argentinean sheds less light on the Argentine than on Ortega, who discovers that the Argentinean "is a Narcissus to the highest degree, being both Narcissus and the spring of Narcissus, and his image into the bargain." Now a refugee in Buenos Aires, Author Ortega regrets that "I know too little of the secret sphere of erotic relations in Argentina...