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...British soldiers steaming from the Far East to the Mediterranean mutinied and killed three British merchant seamen, according to Captain David Bone who filed at Gibraltar a terse account which shocked London. The soldiers were ordered brought to Southampton for trial...
...rumor went around six weeks ago that Leopold Stokowski was resigning from the Philadelphia Orchestra, no one took much notice because the fair-haired conductor has upset Philadelphia before with loud cries of "Wolf!" Last week the rumor became fact. Though for once he appeared to have no bone to pick with the Orchestra board, Stokowski refused a new three-year contract, announced that he would return for 20 concerts next season, but that he wanted the rest of his time for research...
Determined partisans can always be counted on to read national significance into the most insignificant of local elections. Because New York is the home State of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his political generalissimo. James A. Farley, its election of Assemblymen last week provided such partisans with a bare bone for gnawing. The President's part was to sit at Hyde Park and serve in silence as a rabbit's foot to bring luck to Democratic candidates. The part of the Postmaster General was to serve, in anything but silence, as the donkey's head. As chairman...
...make the barren land produce, and his struggles with nature and with his enemies were all directed to that end. He was mean, shrewd, impulsive, attractive only in his devotion to his land and the orchards he eventually established. In a life that had been stripped to the bone his qualities were essential, or the homestead and his ambitions would have been lost to the cattlemen, the landgrabbers, or the sands that swept across the country in times of drought...
...member of the hospital staff, Dr. Minas Joannides, led the woman to an X-ray machine. Visible on a fluorescent screen were her slanted ribs, her heart behind her breast bone, and shadowy splotches which Dr. Joannides explained were her diseased lungs...