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Months ago famed Swedish Humanitarian Eric Dahlberg warned his countrymen what might be the result of Haile Selassie's visit to Stockholm in 1925 as Prince Regent. On that occasion the little Ethiopian persuaded crack Swedish officers including General Virgin to resign from the Army, took them to Addis Ababa where they have trained Ethiopian troops. Said Herr Dahlberg: "We are not sure but what if Italian aviators fail to get our Swedish military instructors at Addis Ababa they may not try to get some of our Swedish ambulance units in the field...
Russia's Empress Catherine I ("Katinka"). not to be confused with Catherine II ("The Great"), got her start as a common soldier's wench who was handed up to a crack Swedish dragoon, to a marshal, to a prince and finally to Peter the Great, whose death left her on the Throne a reigning sovereign. From China last week arrived tidings almost as romantic. Years ago a cheap Chinese photographer had a certain young Chinese woman as handy girl around his studio. Buyers of obscene postcards were attracted by her looks. She was passed up to Mr. Henry...
Facts of this sort were pointed out to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis last week by Dr. Oscar Riddle, 58, crack geneticist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in an address entitled "The Confusion of Tongues." Dr. Riddle asserted that it was high time for science to carry evolution back not only to primordial organisms, but to their natural production from wholly inanimate substances. It has been learned that all that is necessary for the spontaneous generation of certain sugars is sunlight, colored surfaces, water, carbon dioxide, moderate temperatures. Such factors were undoubtedly present...
...Naval Academy at Annapolis. The Academy was blacklisted in 1933 after it replaced over half of its civilian instructors with regular Navy men. Scrutinizing the five black sheep in the pen, the professors decided that the least consequential of them had washed itself white. Opening the gate a crack, they allowed Harris Teachers College to scoot gratefully out. Then the professors set about penning up a big, grimy animal which had long been running free. This was the University of Pittsburgh, whose chancellor is pale, Messianic John Gabbert Bowman and whose home is a handsome Gothic skyscraper, in the heart...
...first one-man show in seven years for Max Kuehne. Artist Kuehne's canvases hang in many museums. Year after year his etchings and lithographs have been listed in the various print societies' Best-Prints-of-the-Year selections. He once sold 32 pictures at a crack to Archer M. Huntington. He is one of the few U. S. painters whose works are included in the great collection of irascible Albert C. Barnes, inventor of Argyrol. His pictures are generally as admired by the art world as they are unknown to the U. S. public. Yet the most...