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...Slow Train Through Arkansas described the vicissitudes of a traveler who, clean-shaven at the beginning of an Arkansas train ride, had a full-grown beard at the trip's end. He explained he did not want to get off and walk because his family did not expect him until the train got in. Another traveler tried to commit suicide by lying on the tracks in front of the train, starved to death before the locomotive reached...
...when this close-shaven, 45-year-old onetime lawyer and Wartime infantry major led his eminent hearers beyond considerations of mass, size and distribution that he got on disputed ground. Dr. Hubble is chiefly renowned for his measurements of the reddening ("red-shift'') of light from distant nebulae. Effect of these observations was to make the universe, already expanding in theory, seem expanding in fact. The nebulae appeared to be hurtling away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distances, and the redshift of the farthest whose spectra could be analyzed (about 150,000,000 lightyears) indicated...
...Service), a setting for the liturgical texts used in the Hebrew temple. Composer Bloch conducted the performance, given by the 250 choristers of the New York Schola Cantorum, 80 members of the Philharmonic-Symphony and Baritone Friedrich Schorr of the Metropolitan Opera who acted as cantor. Bloch appeared clean-shaven and smiling, changed much from the harassed-looking. black-bearded man whom New Yorkers remembered. But Bloch's strength had not gone with his beard. He spread his arms wide and the orchestra sounded quietly, richly. Then Baritone Schorr, whose father was a cantor, started to intone the Mali...
...went to Adolf Hitler last week, presented the compliments of Lutheran Archbishop Erling Eidem of Sweden and told the Chancellor: "The persecution and dismissal of opposition pastors from the German Evangelical Church is a disgrace to Germany." Touched on a tender spot, Herr Hitler roared at his Reich Bishop, shaven-headed Ludwig Müller: "There must be peace in the German Protestant Church by May 1." Reich Bishop Müller roared at the pastors: "There must be peace." "Peace," echoed the pastors, for whom religion in Germany was less than ever a thing of peace last week...
...Indeed!" When sober, cold-water-shaven Adolf Hitler turned up for the third historic time at the President's Palace last week, he found Old Paul all smiles and spruce Colonel von Papen ready to pop the question: "Will you, Herr Reichspräsident, entrust Herr Hitler with a mandate to form a Cabinet...