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Last week the correspondents of Washington went on a speculative spree. As discordantly as the horns of New Year's Eve their conflicting stories of what 1940 would bring rang throngh the wintry Capital, left Presidential booms busting like toy balloons, the paper streamers of old prophecies littering the...
> A diseased hypothalamus may not only cause manic-depressive psychoses (alternating fits of madness and despair) but also less common episodes of insanity. One 20-year-old patient, with a diseased hypothalamus, "sometimes on laughing . . . experiences a sensation of darkness coming from the back to the front of the head...
Just as the rim of the sun dipped into the sea, Captain Langsdorff, surrounded by his officers, saluting, pressed a button on the end of the cable. A dull explosion. In three minutes Spee was on the bottom, her superstructure still showing ablaze. Darkness settled around the hissing remains.
Down went three of the British bombers (according to the British) and five Messerschmitts, before the British ran for home in the growing darkness. Said the British formation leader: "The German planes burned for some time after hitting the water. . . . They looked like enormous beacons. . . . They not only lit up...
Forty Acres is the back lot of Selznick Studios in Culver City. Until the night of Dec. 11, 1938 it was cluttered with old sets accumulated during 20 years of movie making. These sets were laboriously filled with waste and other inflammable materials, well soaked with kerosene. As darkness fell...