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...Sigvard was set on deserting the dwindling ranks of the Swedish royalty. Last week he took Erika to Britain where Swedish law could not reach him and his fragile little romance crashed across the world's front pages. The young couple, dodging about London, was suddenly at the vortex of a wind storm of high diplomacy. The Swedish Ambassador to Great Britain, Baron Palmstierna, put on his silk hat and called on his King's grandson at his hotel. Could not His Royal Highness put off this whole hasty business for more mature consideration? H. R. H. could...
...itself, and the big A.F. of L. unions declined to join the strike. Socialist Norman Thomas said he would march with the Waldorf picketers, but he did not. Writer Fannie Hurst said she would be there too, but she was not. Only celebrities found in the scraggly, vociferous vortex which circled the Waldorf as the week closed were Inquisitor Samuel Seabury and Impostor Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson. Mr. Seabury was going inside for dinner. Mr. Gerguson was bound he alone knew whither...
...Seth Barnes Nicholson of Mt. Wilson Observatory reported two heralds of the sunspot upturn, slyly adding that he saw a first and fainter one a month ago. Sunspots seem to be whirlwinds-the mouths of spiral disturbances arising from below the surface. Hot gases emerging from the vortex expand and cool, thus make the spot look comparatively dark. Though no explanation of the cause of the disturbances has been confidently advanced, the shifting combination of gravitational pulls exerted by the planets is possibly involved. Visible spots range in size from a few hundred to 50,000 mi. across. They...
...minute review of industrial and agricultural Russia. It is interesting to see what Stalin's government is doing to commercialize and make scientifically minded a people whose past has been deeply rooted in the soil. One sees how an agrarian Russia has been pulled into a mighty vortex,--one whose ceaselessly grinding wheels make an American shudder and think how pleasant serfdom must have been for the Russians compared with this new system. Yet, in observing the expressions on these laborers' faces, one is led to believe they are perfectly happy and satisfied with their lot. Ten minutes seems much...
...hard-boiled society girl overcomes Mr. Raft. At the same time Sylvia Sidney's jealous husband breaks out of jail and goes to the house in the suburbs prepared to kill his wife's paramour. Here matters become complicated but the mud sinks to the bottom of the vortex, and Sylvia Sidney and George Raft miraculously emerge, triumphant...