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...edge in Naples harbor as tens of thousands lined the quays and wharves to watch the spectacular blaze. Fortnight ago, the Helouan had dumped 650 moppets from Rightist Spain at Genoa, where, cheering "Viva Il Duce -Arriba Espana," they were rushed away to refugee camps. Only a skeleton crew remained aboard the hospital ship tied up in Naples. Hundreds of tourists, including Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia returning from a Papal audience, were prevented from boarding the U. S.-bound Conte di Savoia until the fire burned...
Author Scott explains that he wrote Algebra for Parents because "ordinary school books are written to be used under a teacher. If a parent is moved to bone up on the subject, he is repelled by the usual textbook . . . seldom more than a skeleton of instruction and a mass of exercises." Although professional textbook writers may accuse Author Scott of oversimplification-trigonometry is covered in 17 pages-he tested his explanations by solving correctly all the College Board algebra examinations from 1916 to 1931. Says Lawyer Scott: "Teaching is a profession and everyone magnifies his own profession...
...Fall River Line (water wheels and feathering buckets, double-inclined compound engine, 95-inch cylinders and eleven-foot stroke) moved with stateliness up New York's East River, as if ignoring the ignominious fact that she was being towed by a tug and had only a skeleton crew. Old rivermen watching her passage guessed they were seeing the black stacks and sedate white hull of the old paddle-wheeler for the last time...
...immediately. The method worked perfectly until the unforeseen accident of a hit put the impresario in the miserable position of having to pay 85% of its profits to all its various angels simultaneously. As rewritten by a battery of Hollywood scenarists, this idea is somehow boiled down to the skeleton for a succession of vaudeville turns most of which are as familiar as the players who take part in them. Best sketch, taken from Life Begins at 8:40 (1934): Milton Berle as a stock speculator hysterically caught in the toils of a greedy broker...
...South American neighbors prevailed upon Bolivia and Paraguay to stop fighting in the Gran Chaco two years ago, the Chaco Peace Conference, meeting intermittently in Buenos Aires ever since, has yet to produce a permanent peace pact. Prime difficulty lies in the fact that the skeleton Bolivian and Paraguayan armies (limited to 5,000 men apiece) have each moved back only a few miles from the positions they held at the time of the armistice, when Paraguay had pushed into 50,000 sq. mi. of the Chaco. This has seemed as natural to Paraguay's Provisional President Colonel Rafael...