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Bearing a name less romantic but doing a work just as effective as that of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the British Committee for the Care of Children from Germany last week continued its effort to get 75,000 Jewish children under 17 out of Nazi clutches. The committee found temporary shelter for 500 waifs in a holiday camp, will teach them English and try to find them (and others yet to come) permanent homes...
Noted as one of the British Empire's most picturesque army units, the Dragoons in their regular full-dress regalia-black-plumed gold helmets, white crossbelts on scarlet tunics, long white gauntlets, blue pantaloons with yellow stripes, lances fluttering with red and white pennants* (see cut) outshone all the rest of the Garden's splendors. The fact that the Dragoons have been chosen to escort King George & Queen Elizabeth on their visit to Canada next year gave them an added glitter. To the music of Scottish folk songs (Bonnie Dundee, The Campbells Are Coming) and Irish jigs (Rory...
...last week a Cities Service tank of ethyl gasoline blew up with force enough to toss its top 150 yards. A flaming geyser of 1,680,000 gallons of gasoline in a few minutes was splattering a dozen other tanks. By midnight 18 tanks had collapsed into a scarlet pool of blazing oil. Watchers got scorched cheeks a mile away. Men who fought the blaze with foamite wondered whether the whole tank metropolis would go. But the wind was merciful. By next noon the last flicker was out. Total damage...
Outraged, betrayed, dejectedly off to bed last night, the first Friday in years without having read TIME. Brooding thoughts while seeking escape in sleep: Whistler's Mother with eyebrows plucked, lips rouged and fingernails enameled a brilliant scarlet. The Blue Danube in swing. Saint-Gaudens' Lincoln with face lifted, wrinkles erased and character lines obliterated. The legs of a fine old Chippendale piece knocked off and replaced with chrome pipe. The interior of Mount Vernon done over in 1938 night-club modern. The mellow patina of a fine old bronze reliquary burnished away...
...barnlike, its benches are uncomfortable. All the buildings are old and ramshackle, except the Mond Laboratory for low-temperature research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur scientist, provided $75,000 in 1932. The Mond Laboratory, which has vibration-damping walls and sleek steel and scarlet furniture in the director's offices, has attained the creditable mark of .02° C. above Absolute Zero...