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...knight school. His name was Gawaine le Coeur-Hardy, but he was not very brave or even very bright. When the other students went to jousting class, Gawaine would hide in the woods. At last the headmaster gave up and told him to take the snap course in dragon-slaying. Gawaine was delighted, and spent the rest of his school days hacking at the model dragon on the south meadow. On commencement day, the headmaster gave Gawaine a magic word ("Rumplesnitz") and sent him forth to slay real live dragons. The very next day, Gawaine said the good word...
After that there was no stopping Gawaine. He slew dragons all over the place, as many as three a day, until he had slain 49. Alas, success went to his head. He took to drink, and whenever he went out he wore eight pounds of medals. And so it happened that Gawaine met up with his 50th dragon...
...51st Dragon, taken from the text by the late Heywood Broun, is the second cartoon in U.P.A.'s (United Productions of America) series of comic legends for moderns. Like the first, an animation of James Thurber's Unicorn in the Garden (TIME, Oct. 26), it is a nasal little ballad that ends with a sly intellectual hiccup. The admirers of Donald Duck and Woody Woodpecker and Porky Pig are not likely to be broken up with hilarity. Still, it is refreshing to laugh at an idea instead of an oink, and the kidding of medieval styles...
...Ambassador's Apologies. Two hours later a fine ash began to fall on the Fortunate Dragon and her crew. It descended for several hours, and when the seamen bathed, they found that it was hard to scrub off. Very soon the men experienced loss of appetite, depression and other first symptoms of radiation...
...time Japanese medical authorities were aware of what had happened, the fish in the Fortunate Dragon's hold had been sold to markets all over Japan. As the government tried to track down the dangerous fish, a wave of alarm and anger spread over Japan. The bottom dropped out of the fish market. Shops sold out their supplies of Geiger counters, and all incoming fishing boats were checked for radiation. The highly radioactive Fortunate Dragon was quarantined and the entire crew hospitalized. U.S. Ambassador John Allison offered profound official apologies, promised restitution if "the facts so warrant." Meanwhile, there...