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ANTON CHEKHOV-Princess Nina Andronikova Toumanova-Columbia Uni-versity Press...
From a medical point of view the disadvantage of air transport is its speed. Bugs which would die in an eight-day voyage can survive a two-day flight. Last week, in the December number of the Uni-versity of California Alumni Monthly, an article called Doctors, Insects and Air Routes explained a new harbor hygiene against inbound contagion. To halt immigration of any more such pests as the corn-borer, Japanese beetle or red scale, the U. S. Public Health Service insists that all planes from South America or Asia must be sprayed. Pan American Airways conscientiously sprays...
First attempt to teach schoolmen radio technique was made by Ohio State Uni-versity which since 1928 has had a workshop for radio broadcasting. Last week the Conference had news of a novel organization called University Broadcasting Council. Set up in Chicago two years ago by the University of Chicago's Radio Director Allen Miller, the Council helps educators from Chicago, Northwestern and DePaul universities not only to solicit radio time and to split the expenses of broadcasting but also to write good scripts. With a $55,000 budget, Director Miller reported, the Council had provided its members with...
...most colorful cities of the U. S. Settled in 1851, a railhead by 1883, headed for civic greatness with the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, Seattle is now 19th U. S. port of entry, still retains the breezy style of prospecting days. Owning its utilities, seat of the Uni versity of Washington (this year's West Coast representative for the Rose Bowl), Seattle still produces characters like the late eccentric Congressman Marion Zioncheck...
Another fugitive, the French holder of the Chair of Jurisprudence at Barcelona Uni-versity for the past 15 years, returned to the University of Paris declaring that Barcelona was split into four hostile factions. "The hordes now in charge in Catalonia," he said, "resamble sewer rats come up for air, and I fear it is going to be difficult to get them down into the sewers again, whatever happens. Thousands of convicts liberated from prison roam the streets and some of them have been made 'officials.' In the midst of all this the, authorities are devoting plenty...