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...help maintain the independence of Austria. Reputedly last week Hungary was sounded in Rome on the proposition that Yugoslavia, with whom Italy has ended her ancient feud, may shortly be asked to join the bipod, making it again a tripod. Keeping all Hungary's cards close to his chest, her Premier ended the Fascist festivities by vaguely declaring: "Our friendly relations with the Rome-Berlin Axis give us renewed hope that our efforts, directed toward the realization of an enduring and just Peace, will bear their fruit...
...John Citizen." Pierce Atwater, executive secretary of St. Paul's Community Chest, declared: "We have allowed our system of public welfare administration to grow far too detached from the body of the citizenship who pay the bills and who drop their verdict into the ballot box." He urged that "the John Citizens of America" be put on relief boards, to leaven professional social workers and politicians...
...Fascist Party. In the Forum Mussolini, with Il Duce watching, with pantherlike Fascist Secretary Achille Starace leading, the testees swam, jumped through blazing hoops, leaped from springboards over hedges of bayonets, tanks and armored cars. Casualties: Falls on bayonet points for two secretaries, a scorching for another, a chest injury for an inspector who landed on a tank...
Freuchen went after a good living, but he continued to like freedom and excitement. Confinement and routine cramped him like a vest several sizes too small for his barrel chest. As editor of his in-laws' magazine, forced to compromise between literature and margarine sales, he tore out his beard by the fistful. As a landowner he relieved the baronial monotony by inviting troops of guests, among them a radical poet who worked for the revolution by urging wealthy landowners to commit suicide...
...medicine." Stout, little Dr. Matas, 1895-1927 Tulane professor of surgery, was one of the world's first doctors to use local anesthetics. He invented a splint for broken jaws and aluminum binders for bulging arteries. He discovered safe ways of operating in cavities of the chest and sure ways of testing for blocked circulation in fingers and toes. Probably his boldest procedure (the Matas Operation) is to slit the paper-thin wall of an artery which is about to burst, stitch the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal...