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Their fear and wrath at the Government abated by the promise of more zip in armament preparations, Canadians were not long in finding other sources of irritation. Royal Canadian Mounted Police in No-mining, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, cracked down on the Fascist National Unity Party. In a wholesale roundup they seized Führer Adrien Arcand, seven other officials, six truckloads of pamphlets, gold-braided uniforms, membership lists. In court, wispy-mustached Newspaperman Arcand was held without bail for hearing this week...
Bread & Brandy. In Eire, members of the I. R. A. received instructions to go to Communion before May 24, whereupon the authorities of North Ireland got busy on a thorough Ulster roundup of suspects. They know that no Catholic Irishman will risk his life without first taking Communion bread...
Chopin: Mazurkas, Volume II (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor: 10 sides). A Chopin specialist continues a roundup of the 54 many-faceted Polish dances (TIME...
West of Miles City, Montana, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific R.R. runs through the valley of the winding Musselshell River. It uses the tracks of a forgotten railroad that laconic Westerners called the Jawbone Line, because it was built on promises. It goes through Roundup, Ringling, Three Forks (where the Missouri begins) and just before Butte, 5,755 feet above sea level, it crosses the Continental Divide...
...they do it. Recently Author Thorp published her findings. Though she modestly says that any such book as hers (America at the Movies, Yale University Press; $2.75) must be "inadequate," "inaccurate," "written rapidly and superficially," to many a reader it may seem crisp, witty, just-a comprehensive roundup of candid facts about people who make, act in and look at movies...