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Germany's outstanding pagan philosopher is Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, erudite and devious "ideologist" to Adolf Hitler. Last week a speech which he recently made in private to the Reich Culture Chamber was published in London. It showed with crystal clarity that not only German Jews but Protestants and Roman Catholics have reason to fear Alfred Rosenberg. Excerpts...
Such was the scene that greeted U. S. sightseers who went for an auto ride one day last week to the top of Pikes Peak. There, along the highway, from Crystal Creek to the summit (12½ miles), 15 sturdy runners plodded along in a unique contest called the Vertical Mile Marathon, sponsored by the Colorado Springs Junior Chamber of Commerce. At the snow-banked summit (14,108 ft. above sea level and exactly one mile higher than the starting point), a sunburned crowd of 300 watched all but five of the runners finish...
...Over the block passed Flemish, early German and French paintings, English mezzotints, sketches and water colors by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard; Gothic, Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries; Louis XIV carpets, Louis XV gueridons, Louis XVI marquetry and console tables; della Robbia terra cottas, Sevres porcelain, Limoges enamels, Ispahan rugs, Italian crystal and marbles, bronzes, Oriental rugs, precious saltcellars, marriage coffers, inkstands, candlesticks...
Died. Dr. John Jacob Abel, 81, professor emeritus of pharmacology at Johns Hopkins: of heart disease; in Baltimore. Among his medical discoveries, two were major: 1) the isolation of epinephrine; 2) the isolation in crystal form of insulin...
Back in radio's early crystal-set era, gloomy prophets spooked telephone stockholders, predicting that the wireless voice would make wire lines relics of an obsolete communications system. Few prophets foresaw that radio would vastly increase the use of wire services as radio pipelines, and nobody would have guessed the telephonic congestion caused by two radio riddle programs last week...