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...Polish claim, based entirely on her possession after the aggression of 1920, is inextricably tied up with her internal political conflict which involves a more liberal element under General Sikorski disputing the Polish leadership with a powerful group which represents the old landlord-nobility-military coterie of pre-war days. This Junker-like school of Polish political thought, which had control in Warsaw under Mr. Josef Beck before the German invasion, has been termed Fascist-minded by the Soviet government, and is the Polish faction which is causing the Kremlin the most worry...
...Italy. When Hitler came into power, Eicke came home to head the SS Death's Head Brigade-the guards who tortured into pulp the minds and bodies of anti-Nazi Germans in the new concentration camps. Eicke was warden of Dachau, and there he was in his element: he meted out the most indecent punishments himself...
Harvard's done it again! In a dusky and over-worked Physics B laboratory came the long-heralded "eureka," and a little spectacled man clenched in his fist the treatise proving the existence of the 93rd element. The strange thing about the new element is why didn't somebody think of it before. This, the one that Mendeleeff missed, has been given the formula Wo., and has been appropriately named Woman...
Physics B students were privileged to read a mimeographed copy telling of the new discovery. "The color exhibited by many specimens of the new element is a surface phenomenon and is usually due to a closely adhering powder. Some varieties tend to form Anne-ions, others Cat-ions...
Gilt-hero Payne flits from Broadway to Banf, a cozy little hideway of 2000 rooms in the Rockies, hot on the trail of his lost love. It's the standard routine--the continental pursuit ending deep amongst nature's element. It had to be that way. Payne is in his element when he gets into the woods. But this time nature complicates things by throwing in a bevy of assorted wolves as only Hollywood and Caesar Romero can portray the species. Between the cavortings of these over-anxious characters, the screen is crammed with dancer John...