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...foreign situation. Should he back down on rearmament he would lose face in Germany. Should he continue to roar he would draw the European ring tighter around him. Closer together than they had been since the War. hoping Hitler would not move brashly toward another war, France, Brit- ain and Italy waited...
...last prostitute left town. Today, says Marshall, Wiseman is one-quarter its boom size, but it is neither depressed nor dreary. Most of its inhabitants came to make a fortune, stayed to enjoy life. Said one old sourdough: ''My God. the time runs away to nothing. Ain't it a corker the way time goes? You can't accomplish anything before you're ready to be buried." Marshall persuaded most Koyukukers to take the Stanford-Binet intelligence test, found them by & large the most intelligent people he had ever known. The ''very superior...
...Chile's experiment (TIME, April 3) many a State legislator is accused of addressing his constituents. Unlike Chile's experiment, few actually do. Broadcasts have included an hour's discussion on labeling eggs, a speech to abolish schools for a few years because "If my children ain't inherited enough intelligence from me and my wife they ain't deservin' no schoolin'," occasional outbursts of profanity (promptly excluded by alert control operators), learned and informative debate and a Senate committee hearing on a 3.2 % beer bill...
...Curses on that city slicker! He ain't done right by our little Nell!" cries Hiram Stanley, the honest farmer. It's true he ain't and it looks bad for Nell. But virtue triumphs, and villainous Richard Murgatroyd, alias Handsome Harry, is foiled in his wicked designs on the farmer's daughter by the staunch courage of noble Jack Dalton, a son of the soil, beneath whose flannel shirt beats an honest heart. The old homestead is saved, the dastardly murderer of Alphonso Pettijohn is handcuffed by detective Hawkshaw in the nick of time, pure Nell and honest Jack...
...Cockney Trader Prin (portly Montague Love, who muscles people around with his stomach) has put the fear o' hell into the natives living far up an African river. He has also broken most of the white assistants that have served under him for, as he says, "I ain't run this river plying tiddly-winks." But two of his helpers he does not quite break. One recovers his courage in time to run off with the trader's ill-used wife. Another, who had liked her too, sticks with Prin until rebellious natives pink him with little...