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Among inventions patented in recent weeks at the U. S. Patent Office...
...month when Great Britain, France and the U. S. withdrew from the Venice International Film Festival (TIME, July 3). Last week the musical world showed signs of a similar division. The Rome-Berlin Axis was much in evidence at Bayreuth, Wagnerian shrine, where the stodgy, Nazi-favored conductors of recent years were joined by an Italian, Victor de Sabata. In Salzburg, which Anschluss knocked off the list of international smart-spots, four of seven scheduled operas were to be given in Italian, two of them with Italian casts, under Tullio Serafin, onetime conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. In contrast with...
There is one other small point. My pacifism is not as recent as the reference to that point might suggest. I was a pacifist during the last War and for several years thereafter and was forced to resign my pulpit during the War because of that. Then I had a period when I was out of both the church and the pacifist movement, returning to both...
...Dewey's prospective witnesses against Racketeer Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, a fugitive under indictment for dirty work in the fur, clothing, baking, restaurant, paint, trucking and other trades. Two other Dewey witnesses had been similarly shot down, presumably by Racketeer Lepke's agents, in recent months; two were missing, others wounded. Democrat Foley fumed loudly & bitterly at Republican Dewey for not guarding his witnesses sooner, so that innocent citizens who resemble them should not be erased by mistake. Furious in turn, Republican Dewey got guards for scores of other prospective Lepke witnesses, asked the city to post...
Dusky Prince Batoula, 44-year-old heir apparent to a native "throne" in Senegal, French West Africa, corrected last week the impression that he was going to make a Princess out of Harriet Mercer, a Harlem laundress whom he met on a recent visit to New York City. In a darkened salon of his Paris apartment His Highness, who already has four wives in Africa, told a United Press correspondent that he had offered to pay Miss Mercer's steamship fare and expenses to Paris only because he wanted her as a secretary and an English teacher...