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...Desert. Before that, no one knew whether dinosaurs laid eggs or bore their young alive. Andrews has done a great deal of other scientific junketing, slaking an insatiable curiosity which he has had ever since he was a Wisconsin boy. Several times he has been on death's brink-once a black boy in Borneo yanked him out of range of a huge python which was about to drop on the explorer from a tree...
...proclaimed to pray for peace, by attending the ivy-covered St. James Episcopal Church in Hyde Park. With him were Mrs. Roosevelt and their refugee guests, Crown Princess Martha and the Countess Ostgaard of Norway, who heard the Rev. Frank R. Wilson declare: ". . . We are on the brink of the greatest catastrophe of all times...
...Brink." After the President's warlike speech at the University of Virginia last June, promising all possible aid to crumbling France and beleaguered Britain, the Post-Dispatch cried in an editorial titled How We Are Being Led to the Brink: "President Roosevelt cannot be trusted to keep this country neutral...
Meanwhile, the St. Louis Star-Times, ardently for Roosevelt and all his works, looked on with increasing wrath. When To the Brink appeared, the Star-Times lashed out with a caustic editorial of its own on page 1. Missouri's New Deal Representative Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. read the Star-Times answer into the Congressional Record, and the Post-Dispatch crusade exploded into a full-fledged editorial...
...bases in the Western Hemisphere. Last week the Tribune, in its first edition, ran a 166-line editorial, We Get the Bases, pointing to the President's deal as a triumph for the Tribune. On page 1 the Tribune printed a caustic cartoon titled Nearer and Nearer the Brink, condemning the deal as an act of war (see cut, p. 77). In later editions the cartoon disappeared, was replaced by another kidding Franklin Roosevelt's trip to Tennessee. In its third edition the Tribune slashed its long editorial to a mild, 27-line cackle of pleasure...