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...Spanish bullfights and bear-baiting, betake themselves to the Boston Skating Club some afternoon this week and they will view that which passeth all description as far as atrocious pastimes go. For on the ice of this handsome rink are perpetrated the most horrible crimes ever seen by bird, beast, or fish...
...Bird No. 1: a serious labor shortage in Nazi Germany, caused by the gigantic public works program and feverish rearmament efforts. Bird No. 2: serious unemployment in Czecho-Slovakia, caused by German grab of Czech industrial areas and the pre-Munich influx of refugees from Austria and the Sudetenland. Last week Prague and Berlin devised a stone to kill both birds: a plan to send 80,000 to 100,000 unemployed Czech workmen to Germany. Time: this spring...
...know about speeds above 400 miles an hour," ruefully admitted the Army's greying Early-Bird pilot. "We are told that engines in the wings will deliver 30% more power at speeds over 300 miles an hour, and we ought to find that out, because we could use that added horsepower in more speed...
Directed by spidery, snapping-eyed, sagacious Curator Paul Rivet, this exhibition is a worthy successor to the old Trocadéro's exhibit of comparative sculpture. Best idea: arranging showcases like text and footnotes in a book, one line of cases along left walls giving a bird's-eye impression of each period of each civilization, while other cases standing out from distant right walls contain complete museum collections. Smartest mechanical innovation: a show case which displays any one of nine related objects at the touch of a button, a great improvement on the usual system of showing...
...widely known here as an amateur collector of birds' eggs of all sorts and has one of the most complete private collections in existence of the land bird and waterfowl types...