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Eduard, save up your pence, For Adolf soon will be over the fence. So runs the insolent jingle which Nazi sympathizers among Czechoslovakia's German minority sporadically plaster on Czech frontier barriers. No one need explain to worried Czechs that Eduard is their president, Eduard Benes (pronounced Benesh), that Adolf is their neighbor, Hitler, that the fence is a cup-shaped chain of mountains along the Czech-German border, a chain about the height of Vermont's Green Mountains. Since the Sixth Century this fence has served as a barrier against the eastward push of Teutonic tribes...
...least of Dr. Wood's fun has been exposing sundry scientific quacks and frauds. Most celebrated case: about 35 years ago, the scientific world was excited by the reported discovery of a mysterious radiation, called "N-rays," by a certain Professor Blondlot of France. Professor Blondlot could not explain the source of the "N-rays'' but he declared that if they were passed through a prism they would cause an electric spark to brighten visibly...
...begin to exchange letters with an equal number of French youngsters. The U. S. children will write in French, the French in English, each will correct the other. But the French Correspondance Scolaire Internationale, sponsor of this friendly and educational gesture, insisted on one restriction which Mr. Wilkins could explain only as an old French custom: French boys may write to U.S. girls, but U. S. boys may not write to French girls...
...Ernest Walsh's and George Whitsett's poetry, Paul Hindemith's, Eric Satie's and Virgil Thomson's music, and lectures by Surrealists Andre Breton and Salvador Dali, Connoisseurs Thomas Dabney Mabry Jr. and Julien Levy from Columbia's Workshop to explain and illustrate surrealism. NBC counters an hour later with Roland Bradley's play about surrealism. (Sat. 8:30 p.m., Blue...
From the Rialto Theatre, where they are holding a convention, through Jackson Square to the spearheaded front fence of the White House, marched a mixed delegation of the Youth Committee Against War. Not waiting for police or Secret Service men to ask their business, or pausing to explain just what parts of President Roosevelt's program they considered provocative, the young men & women produced from their persons seven large cardboard placards which, hung in a row on the fence (see cut), spelled...