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...constable for passing a red light, a U.S. trooper rudely exclaimed: "I've never seen traffic lights in a cemetery before." Another, asked his opinion of Irish girls, glumly replied: "At home, we bury our dead." The Irish have a tendency to resent such-remarks. When a U.S. technician in a bar grumbled audibly about "having to come over to look after this little island," an incensed Irishman flashed back: "Faith, you don't seem very good at looking after your own little islands...
Most notable of last week's surrealist shows was that of 51-year-old, white-haired German-born Max Ernst, who joined the ism 18 years ago, and has since become its master technician and high priest. Surrealist Ernst depicted a rock-candy fairyland peopled with crawling monsters and dismembered nudes in feathery fur coats...
...TIME, Jan. 5 and Feb. 2, reported claims that: 1) Marshal Timoshenko is the son of a Welsh technician named Charles Jenkins; 2) the Marshal was born in Youzovka, allegedly named after a Welshman, one Hughes...
...thrill-a-minute New Deal star wagon it once was. For one thing, defense and war have drawn heavily upon its brilliant staff. OPA took not only ex-Commissioner Leon Henderson, but Utilities Expert Joe Weiner, Legal Eagle Dave Ginsburg; many a lesser technician has gone to defense work. Betting is that only 750 of its 1,250 employes will follow SEC to Rittenhouse Square...
...TIME, Jan. 5, reported a Welsh schoolteacher's statement that Timoshenko's father was a Welsh technician living in Russia. The claim is dubious, but Professor Frederiksen's interesting point tends to support...