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Superman comes on the air with a shrill, shrieking sound effect (combination of a high wind and a bomb whine, recorded in the Spanish war). Voices hail him with: "Up in the sky-look! It's a bird. . . . It's a plane. . . . It's SUPERMAN!" Superman or no superman, he has to watch his step on the radio. Mothers' clubs have their eyes on him, the Child Study Association of America feels that his occasional rocket & space ship jaunts are a bit too improbable. By radio's own war rules, he must remain neutral...
...Although bomb detonations have shattered some windows in his villa, 20 miles from Helsinki, bald, hulking, 74-year-old Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, the Finns' "national treasure," stubbornly refused to leave. Two weeks after the Russo-Finnish war began he left his Helsinki flat for the country. Said friends: "It was the noise [of daily bombings] that drove him out. He has little fear, but the noise was just too unmusical...
...realistic piece, The Battle of Trenton consisted of a collection of little movements, each depicting a stage in the battle. One of them was built around the tune Yankee Doodle. Each had a subtitle: Attack-Cannons-Bomb. Defeat of the Hessians - General Confusion -Articles of Capitulation Signed-Grief of Americans for the loss of their companions killed in the engagement. Trumpets of Victory-General Rejoicing...
Thus Peter Barnes and James Richards, defiant and calm, were last week hanged by their necks until dead. They had been convicted by a jury of their peers of planting on Coventry's main street a bomb that blew to bits five innocent citizens. Most Englishmen could only say that they were murderers who got their just deserts...
Recalled last week were Colonel Apted's biggest exploits: the time he recovered Massachusetts' Sacred Cod, stolen from the State House; the time he produced Handsome Dan, bulldog mascot stolen from Yale; the time he picked up a bomb and foiled an attempt to blow up Harvard's old Yard pump...