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...Finnish aggression, flared to new highs, led to loud demands that the U. S. break off diplomatic relations with Russia. Said Senator King of Utah: "My country will no longer grasp the bloody hands of Stalin." Said Senator Vandenberg: "There is no rational alternative except to drive every trace of Communism and Naziism out of the U. S." Said Senator Russell of Georgia, "Of all the terrible incidents of this year, this is the most tragic." Said Nebraska's Norris, "This is the worst thing that has happened...
...Elmo Lincoln, playing a blacksmith into whose custody the captured Kaiser (Rupert Julian) was given after the War. The late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chaney played walrus-whiskered Admiral von Tirpitz, as mild-looking a Santa Claus as ever ordered an ocean liner spurlos versenkt (sunk without trace...
...House of Nassau can trace its origin to 800, its members settling in the Lowlands from Germany in 1400. The Orange-Nassau line barely missed dying out with Wilhelmina's father, William III. William's first wife and two sons died one after the other. At 62 he married the 20-year-old Princess Emma, of Waldeck-Pyrmont, a small German State. Of that marriage the sole issue was Wilhelmina, born August 31, 1880. Repeal of the Salic Law forbidding female rulers allowed her to succeed to the throne...
...organized around theology, and its curriculum was the same for all students. Today the picture is just about as different as it could be. Religious courses have virtually passed out of the college curriculum, while of religion as a unifying philosophy for all learning there is left not a trace. In view of this, the new Freshman survey course on "The Christian Religion", projected by the Divinity School for next year, comes as something of a novelty. Planned to deal mainly with the philosophy of Christianity, with emphasis on the present-day American church, it represents a new trend...
...COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS-Eric Ambler -Knopf ($2). An English detectifiction writer sets out to trace the career of a shady Greek fig-packer whose stabbed body he saw in a Turkish morgue. Author Ambler, international traveler, scripter for Alexander Korda, artfully interweaves spidery intrigue and murder mystery...