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...three or four full-time associates (two of whom frequently wrote 50 to 70% of the magazine) and about ten contributors of occasional pieces. In order to get out the magazine at all every one had to work seven days a week. On Sundays pencils flourished with particular vigor so that the staff could keep warm, since there was no heat in the building...
...Selznick International) is a slick-dandy, too-well-tailored dressing up of Mark Twain's homespun yarn. Its Hollywood pretty-prettiness needs more than anything else to have its face & hands rubbed in good Mississippi mud. But neither time, Technicolor nor cinema trickery can dim the essential vigor of Tom Sawyer. Tom's system for getting the fence whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted...
...rich uncle who had offered to set up Martin Niemoller as a farmer in Tecklenburg. He turned to the relative financial security of Germany's State-supported Lutheran Church, became a pastor in 1924. Ten years later Pastor Niemoller, who threw into saving German souls the same brawling vigor that stood him in good stead sinking ships, had corralled Berlin's wealthiest and most influential congregation for his Jesus Christus Kirche in the swank suburb Dahlem. Such redoubtable parishioners as Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht, autocratic Reichsbank Governor, immensely liked the two-fisted sermons Pastor Niemoller preached...
...Balkans a monarch must often act with vigor if he expects to stay King, and at Bucharest last week Carol von Hohenzollern suddenly made himself as much a Dictator as was his brother-in-law, the late King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15, 1934, et seq.). Carol II has long hankered after the absolutism of his Hohenzollern kinsman Wilhelm II. Last week's crisis broke after Premier Octavian Goga received two heavy blows: 1) his entire slate of anti-Semitic decrees was declared unconstitutional; and 2) a brawl in which Goga's own political...
...Banta of Brown University. Dr. Banta has found that the average water flea which has all it wants to eat from birth lives 29 days. But if the flea is starved in its youth, given an ample ditt in maturity, it lives 42 to 51 days, growing and maintaining vigor and reproductivity throughout that long life...