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...four persons were killed. Last summer there were more serious Burman-Indian riots which killed 200 and wounded nearly 1,000. They were caused by: 1) the rifling by Hindus of a sacred pagoda which contained one of Buddha's teeth; 2) the distribution by Hindus of a pamphlet containing passages insulting to Buddha. Burma's Legislature last week concluded that Premier Ba Maw had failed to solve the prickly problem of Burma's Indian minority, passed a motion of noconfidence. Chosen to succeed Ba Maw and to restore peace between Burmans and Indians...
...pamphlet issued by the Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America, Inc. revealed that sales of rights on plays to cinema between 1926 and 1939 totaled...
...journals and Walt Whitman. One day last year he put on his thinking pants, spotted this Whitman line: Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you? Last week he published Disputed Passage (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50). As a personality pamphlet, it is a wow. As a novel, it is nothing much-no better nor worse than other Douglas books. Professor Tubby Forrester is so sour on life that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse...
...carpenters' mate, quarry laborer, miner, packer, sheep-shearer and scenario writer for an Australian film company. In England he has earned his living as sceneshifter and flyman in a theatre, prop-boy in a film studio, "effect" man with film companies. Last month Poet Laura Riding wrote a pamphlet about him. Said she: "There is a work of purification to be done in the use of camera, and Len Lye's existing films hint at some of the ways in which it may be done...
...page pamphlet, complaining of the bad fare from which the "outhousers" suffered, proposed "that the outhousers may, regulating the supply so as to keep up the price, be offered for sale to the persons of quality and fortune throughout the College; always taking care that they eat plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table...