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Released to first-run houses all over the U. S. fortnight ago, Vol. 4 No. 2 had been doing a big business for two weeks, but last week it made news ot a different sort in New York City. New York is currently in the throes of a mayoral election campaign in which photogenic Mr. LaGuardia is being opposed by Mr. Jeremiah T. Mahoney, who is the Democratic candidate. Tammany Hall still controls the Borough of Manhattan pretty thoroughly and Radio City's Music Hall, M. O. T. first-run house in New York...
Last week Fortism had its renaissance in Vol. 1, No. 1 of a slim journal called The Fortean Society Magazine, edited by Tiffany Thayer. The lead article, written by Publisher Thayer, purported to prove that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were "murdered"-i. e., went astray in the Pacific because geodesists do not really know how to make accurate maps of the earth's surface. A black-bordered rectangle bore the legend: "These honored dead were Forteans: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - LINCOLN STEFFENS." The magazine also announced that astronomers played down a recent eclipse of Venus by the moon...
...DEPTHS & THE HEIGHTS-Jules Romains-Knopf ($3). Vol. VI of Romains' monumental novel-about-Paris, Men of Good Will (TIME, June 5, 1933 et seq.). In this installment Novelist George Allory, bitterly chagrined by his failure of election to the Academy, begins his tumble to the gutter; while Psychiatrist Viaur starts climbing to the stars. No end is in sight, and Author Romains has not divulged how much is yet to come...
...Coming of the Lord . . . Great Confusion Upon Earth . . . September 16, 1936 was announced last year in Manhattan by a Mrs. Edna Bandler in Vol. 1, No. 1 of a magazine called The Prophet. Last week, Mrs. Bandler turned up in the news again, conducting a "Week of Prophecy" in Town Hall, daily donning a white veil and prophesying for the 25 to 100 people who dropped in, admission free, to hear...
...Logan, the friendly Mingo leader. Logan himself believed otherwise, as appears from his reply to John Gibson, an emissary from Governor Dunmore of Virginia, in 1774. His speech is regarded as a classic example of the simple, direct, dignified style of the Indian. It may be found in Vol. VII, The World's Best Orations, p. 2569 (1901 edition), and is as follows...