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...Paul, surgeons took an 8½-in. table fork from the stomach of Margaret Santell, 19. In Los Angeles, doctors fed cotton & spinach to Raymond Wilkinson, 5, to pad a small open pocket knife working slowly down through his intestinal tract...
About 18 months ago the British Government, which holds Transjordania as a Mandate, gave Emir Abdullah for his very own an extremely fertile tract of 17,500 acres beside the River Jordan. Native opinion would never sanction the leasing of public lands to Jews, and the British Government has never attempted such a course, but private lands belonging to the Emir are a different matter. Last week Emir Abdullah granted a six-month option to lease his new lands to the Palestine Jewish Agency which has been barred by Palestine Moslems from obtaining further lands there. To Britain...
...rank among the world's finest for the use of the country's foremost. Back of the idea was Fielding Wallace, Augusta textile manufacturer who makes "press cloth" out of human hair imported from China. He and his friends formed the holding company to buy a tract of 364 acres, of which the club now uses 192. Memberships-of which Bobby Jones, the club's president, thinks 500 will be plenty-will cost $350, with $60 dues. The clubhouse is an oldfashioned, wide-planked Southern mansion, charmingly furnished; the club's professional, selected by Jones...
...theme of the work is not new, it is a return to the old attack on the false ideals of modern life, a tract against the prostitution of all that is healthy and wholesome in civilization to selfishness and commercialization. Unlike the gall of Lewis, or the satiric sterility displayed by the editors of Americana, the author finds promise in the prospects for the historic tomorrow; he draws a hopeful contrast between the hectic stampede of America to a vacuous, sordid prosperity, and the Russians, earnestly blundering toward civilization. In the new generation of Americans, which has no need...
...mask mistakes his rescuer for a German soldier. Director Pabst never stops emphasizing his theme?that for miners, gas and war, not each other, are common enemies? but he does it with a photographic vigor that makes Kameradschaft resemble a brilliant newsreel much more than a dramatized tract. The picture has been successful abroad, where it was released last winter. With English subtitles to translate its sparse dialogue it is likely to enjoy a more limited success...