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Around the fire they gathered in the cool of a May evening to talk, as Harvard men will, "of ships and sealing wax and things." '28 asked the Vagabond about Class Day down in the Houses with a note of stale regret in his voice and the Vagabond answered in the words of, as the newspapers have it, our Dr. Lowell that--"that institution is dead which does not change." "I know," said '28, "but the fountains, what about the fountains, will they play in the quadrangles?" Alas, no one knew, though the lip thatch lifted to impart...
...hands. Japanese know that control of virtually all banking, Japanese foreign trade & shipping, domestic industry, insurance and even Japanese department stores is closely held by five so-called "Merchant Empires" owned by the Japanese families of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura. These families have continued to wax rich during a decade of deepening Japanese depression. Every Japanese knows that their wealth has fostered corruption of both leading political parties, the Seiyukai and Minseito...
...built. Using weather reports from ships at sea, Vice President Jerome Clarke Hunsaker has made hundreds of theoretical crossings, has gathered an abundance of lore to swell the experience of previous actual crossings. He estimates that schedules can be maintained 80% of the time, that his company can wax rich on a diversion of but 4% of the present deluxe steamship traffic...
...Napoleon Greift Ein," or as the English has it "Napoleon Intrudes," deals with a wax figure of Napoleon which comes to life and trys to intervene in the modern world. He boasts that he alone can save Europe from becoming slaven of America. "Dann greift or ein," first in a diplomatic conference, then a boudoir, a motor picture studio, a madhouse, and ultimately the museum again...
...satire in penetrating as well as amusing. Mussolini's wax effigy is deprived of trousers because it is more fitting that he appear thus to the world. Napoleon informs the half-dressed Mussolini that he would be better off "without the trousers of dictatorship...