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...year-old sprout was dragged from his sleep on a cold cell floor to be prodded with the endless question: "Were you a member of a counterrevolutionary, Fascist, terroristic organization?" After nights of browbeating, the bewildered lad "confessed." The zealous agents then attempted to get him to confess that he had started recruiting for such an organization in 1935 (when he was seven years...
...pound, 69-year-old Mahatma sat down before a crowd of sympathetic spectators and ate a meal of brown bread, cooked vegetables, oranges and a cup of hot goat's milk. Then he retired to a rustic cot in a room as bare as a Sing Sing cell and began his sixth fast until victory or death...
...from Key West (see p. 13). Other orators of State and church completed the inaugural, but the sublimest signal of all had been furnished the night prior at 10:30 p. m. by the sun itself, then riding at meridian over India. Its noonday rays impinged upon a photoelectric cell in Bombay, closing electric circuits by radio to start the carillon in the Tower of the Sun (400 ft., the fair's tallest). The carillon thereupon chimed out the fair's theme song, "The Bells of Treasure Island." Simultaneously on went the floodlights illuminating the Pageant...
...Contrary to recent newspaper reports, "there is no evidence that cancer is a germ disease." Cancer is a wildfire growth of "anarchist cells" which have broken away from the normal rhythm of cell growth. These anarchist cells are found everywhere in nature: in mice, apes, dogs, horses, fishes, birds, insects, plants...
Year and a half ago Manhattan's New York University hired Bandmaster Vincent Lopez to give a course in the appreciation of jazz music. Last week staid Harvard University burst shagging from its cell, organized an unofficial swing course in the Music Deaprtment and set aside $250 of Harvard's Rogers Fund to buy swing records...