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Three days of rain and bird-walking weather last week gave the battered seaboard towns of Loyalist Spain their first respite in three weeks from incessant, systematic bombings by Insurgent Generalissimo Franco's airplanes. Late last month, infuriated by the refusal of Britain and France to grant him belligerent rights. Franco listed 100 Loyalist towns and 58 villages as "legitimate objectives." announced that they would be ceaselessly bombed in ''retaliation." A fleet of Italian Savoia and German Junkers bombing planes, based at Majorca, was ordered to blast the towns in shifts. At last reports they had dumped...
Harvard's reserve strength is notably weak and inexperienced, a fact which was apparent during the Brown tussle. Coach Fesler's squad misses forward Dick Sullivan, who is out in Ohio competing for a Rhodes scholarship. As a result, Jayvee Lee Bird was elevated to the Varsity a few days ago to bolster the reserves...
Arithmetic by the ton constituted the anesthetic "prologue" of the investigation. Dr. Isidor Lubin, the dark, bird-like Commissioner of Labor Statistics, presented a bale of charts to show the growth of U. S. population, industrial production (total and per capita), national income ($432 per capita in the U. S. for 1934-35), employment. Biggest headlines were accorded his estimate that between 1929 and now the country "lost 133 billion dollars of potential income," including 119 billions in workers' wages for 43 million man-years of work...
Paleontologist Roland T. Bird of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History found a sauropod trail near Glen Rose, Texas. Taking twelve feet at a stride, the creature had ambled down to the edge of an ancient river, crossed it, walked out on the other side. Thus it was clear that the sauropods could travel overland, for short distances at least. But the feet of Dr. Bird's great sauropod sank into the soggy ground two feet at every step...
...Town (Les Brown; Blue-bird). New Cole Porter torch song played by a sound and rising new band of Duke University boys. The Brown band also has made the least offensive record of This Can't Be Love from The Boys From Syracuse, Richard Rodgers' most tunesome score...