Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Equipped with his own hunches and reports from well-placed tipsters, Editor Williams made quite a local name for himself as a prognosticator in world politics. His major prediction was that Germany would precipitate a world war in the spring or summer of 1938 over the Czechoslovakia!! issue. A second prediction, the blunt assertion that "Germany will not march." appeared late in September when the Czechoslovakian crisis looked its blackest...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in Bedrich Smetana's overture to The Bartered Bride, Giuseppe Martucci's First Symphony, Kurt Atterberg's Midsummer Dances, Maurice Ravel's second Daphnis et Chloe suite...
...wars are again making military commentaries popular. Last week Liddell Hart published Through the Fog of War, contributing little new material, but .including a moving epilogue as fine as anything he has written. People who talk of preventing war are already two years out of date, he says; the second great war of the 20th Century started in 1936; and in Spain, in Central Europe, in the Far East, the powers are maneuvering for strategic positions before delivering the decisive stroke...
Veteran. Big, stoop-shouldered George Fielding Eliot got his baptism of fire as a second lieutenant of Australian infantry. He began to write, however, as a major of the U. S. military intelligence reserve. Behind this shift of allegiance lay a long story: born in Brooklyn 44 years ago, he migrated to Australia with his parents at eight, returned to the U. S. to school, was in college at Melbourne when the War broke out. He fought at the Dardanelles from May through August 1915, was transferred to the Western front, where he went through the battles of the Somme...
...HOLDS A CANDLE-Erh Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). In his second exploit, small-town District Attorney Douglas Selby finds far-flung repercussions in the apparently accidental death of an unknown hitchhiker. Good detection but the D. A. can't hold a candle to Gardner's Perry Mason...