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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moslem Jinnah claims that he is a patriot. Close to his heart, he says, is Indian freedom from Britain. And yet his League was the one important political group to endorse the British White Paper of last month deferring dominion status until after the war. His reasons are partly political, partly religious. He is a minority-leader, who wants both to curry favor with Britain and to avoid a "freedom" in which Moslems are bound to worse enemies than the British...
Last week, though much of his old ebullience was gone, old "Doc" Cook still held high his white head, as he chatted with Sir Hubert Wilkins. His talk was still of exploring. Said he, holding his fingers to his temples: "Most of all we have got to explore this area here-that lies back of the eyes and between the ears. When that cranial sphere is fully explored men will have no reason to fight wars...
Last week the fans near went past themselves. They cheered lustily for Ralph Oves, Lincoln's towering center, who stands out in the line like a moon on a dark night (Oves is the only white player in Negro football). They set off firecrackers, one of which, mistaken for the timekeeper's gun, sent the players to the sidelines. They tooted piccolos during timeouts, chanted A-well-a-take-um-a-Joe (crapshooters' lullaby...
...opera roles. But in the days when Martinelli's voice was at its sweetest, Metropolitan directors always chose a throatier Teuton for the job. Last week at the Chicago Opera, 54-year-old Veteran Martinelli finally got his chance. Playing opposite buxom Kirsten Flagstad's bosom, his white hair covered with a blond wig, Tenor Martinelli sang his part without a misplaced guttural. But between towering Soprano Flagstad and the booming orchestra led by Flagstad's private accompanist, Edwin McArthur, Martinelli's long song of love was pretty well drowned out. To cap all, just before...
Died. Sammy Boy, 16, snow-white Siberian Samoyed brought to the U. S. by Arctic Explorer Roald Amundsen, so much in demand for commercial dog photographs that his name was listed in the Los Angeles telephone book; of a heart attack; in San Francisco (where he was to act in a charity show...