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...China the ancient and honorable game of Mah Jongg is used to settle many disputes and problems. More than one man has, by being careless with an East Wind, found himself sitting in solemn silence in the dull, dark dock of a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock of a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block...
...advances in Roentgenology made public at the annual meeting of the American Radiological Society in San Francisco is the eradication of birthmarks through the application of radium. Dr. Lawrence R. Taussig, of the University of California, has used radium rays successfully for this purpose, and has even eliminated the dark red "strawberry" blotches so disfiguring to the face...
...Society, meeting in London, considered what might be done to stop the gambling evil. One cleric told the Society that some men in his parish bet on whether the vicar would preach on a text from the Old or the New Testament. No one thought of betting on the dark horse. They found the vicar preaching on the text Revision of the Prayer Book...
...DARK PLACES-John Russell- Knopf ($2.50). Twelve tales of savage environments and more or less savage people by the author of Where the Pavement Ends. A tourist searches for "the color of the East" and finds it strangely crim-son-a tropical grafter fights to the death so no one may rob his superiors but himself-criminals, escaping on a former slave ship fall into the hands of the deadly justice of the vampire bats-and so on. The yarns are varied, colorful, exciting, skilfully told, with a knowledge of strange lands and stranger characters that is obviously firsthand. Neither...
...story of a real estate agent, Mr. J. Lowrison, of No. 7 Goldsmith Square, Stoke Newington, who wrote: " If you will help me in finding a young wife?I will help you in getting a house." Specifications for the young lady: " About 30, short, dark, domesticated...