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...practical statesman, there was but one thing for Adolf Hitler to do, back down, but how could he do it without losing face at home? At this point the world disarmament message of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, May 22) came as a life saver. President Roosevelt had demanded immediate action by all the nations to save the world from chaos. Adolf Hitler's speech might be not a change in policy, but a definite offer in response to a definite request. No sooner was the first official translation off the wires than it was rushed to Hitler's desk...
...Philosopher Ortega y Gasset admits, anything today rather than philosophers, this penetrating analysis of the world's state is not economic. No fatalist, Ortega y Gasset, searcher for the truth about Western civilization, believes that something may still be done with the truth when it is found. A yea-saver, his gloomiest proph ecy is still hopeful in a sardonic Spanish way: ''Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or some thing to take command, to impose an occupation, a duty...
...Thelma Todd), the college widow. Groucho, Chico and Harpo also attempt to become familiar with Miss Bailey. She tries to steal the signals of the Huxley football team from President Groucho by taking him for a ride in a canoe. Groucho lets her paddle, throws her a candy life-saver when she falls out. Presently, Chico and Harpo go to kidnap the two best players of the rival football team. The football players kidnap Chico and Harpo. Harpo and Chico saw their way out. Half naked, they drive to the game in a perambulating garbage can that resembles a chariot...
Disagreeing with most British opinion, Professor Darwin does not think that the American university or college is too heavily endowed. The elaborate equipment. Scientific or athletic, although often regarded as a luxury is a definite time saver and should be appropriated...
...sawdust trail is winding westward and Billy Sunday, saver of souls, is on his way. Behind him Sodom's smoke curls lazily skyward while a new city rises from the ashes. The surviving policeman declares himself lost in the new order, for he finds the wheels of authority greased with brotherly love rather than with the customary smooth oil of corruption...