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Although it is a registered trademark, ping-pong is the historic name for the game. TIME declines to be drawn into a purely commercial quarrel over the propriety of the name...
...pretty, Italian first wife Tosca, Enzo Fiermonte. occasional prizefighter, taxied up to a Naples Hotel, hastened in to calm his tearful wife, Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, widow of John Jacob Astor II, mother of John Jacob Astor III. Hotel-men, eavesdropping, heard sounds of a quarrel. After an hour, handsome, husky Fisticuffer Fiermonte, whose passport had been taken by the police, left to spend the night with his first wife's brother. Next morning he was off to Rome on the third lap of a wife-to-wife shuttling trip which began three weeks ago when...
...human relations which have little or nothing to do with the structure of government. What, then, is the essential, pervasive, irreducible characteristic in this thing we call "politics"--the unifying concept? Mr. Brane says it is social control--the control of power exercised by man over man. Few will quarrel with this choice in general, although some doubt whether "power" adequately expresses the "political" relations of men, and all will readily admit that since it is a phenomenon perceptible not in itself but only in cause and effect, the "science" must be constructed along somewhat vague and unstable lines...
Those who saw in the recent settlement of the Hungarian-Jugo-Slavian affair the beginning of a new era in international politics should be interested by an item in yesterday's newspapers dealing with the equally fascinating, although less important, quarrel between Italy and Abyssinia. These reports announced that, in a statement apparently signed by Premier Mussolini himself, the Italian government had refused arbitration, maintaining that the case was one of pure aggression on the part of the Ethiopians. This statement has a certain whimsical humor, suggesting an image of the Roman eagle fighting for its life against the black...
...Loyal Opposition, had a perfect opening to attack his Majesty's Government as perjured hypocrites, but instead he endorsed their wisdom, obvious apparently to all Great Britons except that Canadian-born Press Tycoon Baron Beaverbrook. Unheeded, his Daily Express roared, "This is what comes of meddling in a quarrel that is not ours! ... By sending in British troops we lay ourselves open to the eventual criticism of both France and Germany. . . . We are like the fool who interferes in another family's dispute...