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Whales are mammals. They do not have gills but lungs, must breathe air in order to maintain life. Therefore a whale out of water is not, like a fish, deprived of a necessary element. When a school of dead whales was recently found on the Australian coast. Dr. William Alexander Osborne, dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Melbourne, put this question to his learned colleagues: "Why do stranded whales die?" From his learned colleagues, according to his report in Nature last week, he received the following answers...
...spite of, or because of the fact that Miss Skinner is the hardest-worked actress now playing on Broadway, her entertainment has a large element of stunt-appeal. Theatregoers tell each other how wonderful it is that she can do it all alone. Edna His Wife is also a fascinating guessing-game. Only by inference from the spoken lines can the audience know what the invisible characters are supposed to be saying. Thanks to Miss Skinner's powers of suggestion, Edna's husband, who never appears, seems as real as any person in the play...
After SEC Chairman William O. Douglas lashed out at the New York Stock Exchange's "club" atmosphere and declared that "no element of the Casino should be allowed" (TIME, Dec. 6), Exchange members expressed their reaction by hooting, whistling and booing on the floor of the Exchange, crying "Casino!" whenever they had trouble buying or selling at a desired price. Wall Street's official reaction was a painfully courteous promise by Charles R. Gay. president of the Exchange, to look into the situation...
...China cannot absorb Japan, what are the chances of Japan's dominating China permanently? Here the second new element enters the situation. China absorbed her earlier conquerors chiefly by reason of her own greater cultural vitality. In part it has been this same vitality of the old Confucian way of life which has delayed China's modernization. In the last decade the tempo of modernization has markedly increased, but instead of evaporating, the old culture seems to be forming the basis for a rapidly growing modern nationalism,--as one might expect. Modern China is becoming more and more conscious...
...market in which there is such an enormous public interest-in which not only 300,000 small traders but 10,000,000 investors have a stake, it is essential that no element of the Casino be allowed to intrude and that all such elements be obliterated...