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...decision of Parliament we, the Government, are charged with defending the national patrimony. There are Frenchmen who talk of 'devaluation,' of 'reflation' and of 'revalorization.' They forget that France already has lost four-fifths of the value of its currency. Other Governments may prefer to print false money. This Government will have none of that...
...come meteoritic associations (comets, meteor streams), systems of satellites, stars, double and multiple stars, star clusters, galaxies, super-galaxies. Above all, the Universe of universes-the Metagalaxy. "That," says Harlow Shapley, "is as far as astronomy takes us. Beyond that is metaphysics, and whatever approach thereto the individual may prefer. Most astronomers are agnostics. Not atheists- that presumes more conviction than religion does. Scientists cannot have faith. Ours is a perpetual inquiry; any acceptance of faith-in a scientific or a metaphysical or an esthetic sense-brings inquiry to a halt...
...five Piccirilli brothers of The Bronx are the world's greatest team of sculptors. But, like the Pisani of the 13th Century, they prefer to think of themselves as "masters of stone." As such, they make most of their money anonymously converting into their own Italian marble the clay and plaster models of less handy and sometimes more famed U. S. sculptors. Last week, for probably the first time in Piccirilli history, someone else had the job of executing work by a Piccirilli...
...whom so many hurrahs were shouted last week be Greece's deposed George II ("Gorgeous Georgios") who lives in London the life of a sportsman-about-town and insists "I have never abdicated. Mark my words, I shall again be King of the Greeks." Many Greeks would prefer to see British George V's youngest son, the Duke of Kent, invited by the Athenian Parliament to become King Georgios III, his wife Marina being that most popular of Greek royalties. Thus last week Marina's Cousin Georgios II had need of what every doubtful candidate requires...
Women outnumber men 4-to-1 as carriers, most of whom prefer to become cooks. Many a U. S. community forbids known carriers of typhoid to handle food. Recalcitrant ones, like notorious "Typhoid Mary" Mallon of Manhattan, are forced into isolation...