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From the standpoint of power politics the pact amounted to raising the ante in the hope of frightening the U. S. into dropping its hand so the Axis could rake in the pot. But if the Axis hoped to frighten the U. S. out of its everything-short-of-war policy of helping Great Britain, it had almost certainly failed. Since U. S. security in the Atlantic - hence liberty to maintain her Fleet in the Pacific-depends on the British Fleet, the U. S. could now do no less than help Britain more...
Last week a successful measles vaccine was announced by Drs. Joseph Stokes Jr. of U. of Pa.'s medical school and Geoffrey William Rake of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. They obtain active virus from the blood or throat washings of measly moppets, treat this material with ether or by filtering to remove bacteria, pass it into chicken eggshells through a small hole made with a dentist's drill, inject it into the chick embryo's outer membrane. After allowing four or five days for the virus to propagate, they open the eggs, remove the membrane...
...Petersburg's upper crust was a wild melee of tempestuous music and passionate romance. From these Director Dreville has compounded "Kreutzer Sonata." As in Tolstoy's story the characters are carefree debauchees who tinkle champagne glasses to Beethoven's music. Thus Jean Yonnel, as Dimitri Pozdnycheff the irrestible rake, makes eyes at his creditor's wife while that gentleman removes the furniture, and reforms by going home to make love to the country lasses. American tabloid readers can fill in the rest of the plot: true love, questioned virtue, and a scheming horse-faced violinist...
...Various manufacturers reported they had been approached by persuasive "agents" claiming to have a special in with the Ministry of Supply. Their proposition was to get the manufacturers Government contracts in return for a 3% rake...
However, one quarter reported seeing a publicity-shy gentleman named Edgar J. Dies following two members of the Maintenance Department who were armed with suspicious implements of violence: two shovels and a rake...