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Escape This Night (by Robert Steiner & Leona Heyert; produced by Robinson Smith) will be remembered, if at all, as "the mystery story laid in the 42nd Street Public Library." For out of a welter of irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial crimes, what jut up solidly are Designer Harry Homers amazingly clever reproductions of Manhattan's famed library-reading room, Braille room, entrance lobby, even one of the snooty stone lions that guard the portals. Roaming through the vast institution with more sinister motives than are common to real life, a blind woman (Ellen Hall), her husband (Arnold Korff...
...comes from the U. S. Under an agreement with the U. S. made last year Germany was assured a supply of helium sufficient to operate its North Atlantic airship route, planned to commence service with the new LZ-130 in June. Then Hitler absorbed Austria and out of the welter of triumphant speeches the U. S. gathered that its helium might be used for war, held up the shipment. Last week Germany inquired through U. S. Ambassador Hugh Wilson when it might expect the agreed shipment of 17,900,000 cu. ft. In January Germany's helium ship Dessau...
...welter of their personal memories which Harvard alumni fondly recollect, two points stand out which are highly essential for undergraduates to understand more clearly. Both of these deal with little known features of extra-curricular activities; and it is to clarify these points that the Crimson is today conducting a poll of the student body. It is hoped that this questionnaire will spotlight several issues which have been too long ignored, particularly by incoming Freshmen...
...rising young lawyer and Catholic politician, Dr. Schuschnigg had become Minister of Education and Justice by May 1, 1934, the date on which diminutive Austrian Chancellor Engelbert ("Millimetternich") Dollfuss formed his Christian Authoritarian State. It was said of Dr. Schuschnigg that he had come with "clean hands" through the welter of financial scandals involving many Austrian politicians since the War. So had Dollfuss, for that matter. Nobody thought of the Minister of Education and Justice as a future Austrian Chancellor-until he happened not to be with Dollfuss and most of the Cabinet on the day Nazi assassins captured...
...Sinanthropus is older than Pithecanthropus, although the workers in China think so. Both appear to have lived somewhere near the beginning of the Pleistocene. One figure given for their ages is 500,000 years; another is 1,000,000 years. Two conclusions which emerge with reasonable probability from the welter of anthropological confusion are: 1) that early man flowered in a number of different genera and species which became extinct before Homo sapiens appeared, and 2) that the common ancestor was a giant, arboreal ape related to the well-known fossil ape genus called Dryopithecus...