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...sophistication of Russian ballet but liked the buoyancy and bounce with which the youthful Yemenites performed. Those dances which did not have Biblical subjects depicted such incidents in Yemenite life as breadmaking, gossip at the village well, work in the orange groves. In two numbers, Nikova's sturdy five-foot ballerinas gallantly revived the sword dances of their warrior ancestors...
Popular adult education has a curious affinity for numbers. Charles William Eliot struck the public fancy with his "five-foot shelf," Emanuel Haldeman-Julius makes hay with "five-cent" pamphlets, many have sold "15 easy lessons." Since last March the newest of these enterprises, the National Educational Alliance, has been offering as a short cut to learning 57 courses at 1? a lesson. By last week it had a good round number to boast about -250,000 students...
...simple, comfortable country establishment. But Garmisch-Partenkirchen, scene of the 1936 winter Olympics, has recently become a tourist and winter sport centre, and the white-haired composer has had to fortify himself against snoopers. Today, the Strauss home and adjoining five acres of formal gardens are surrounded by a five-foot wall topped by an 18-inch barbed wire fence. Only entrance to the grounds is a thick iron door equipped with a large bell-push and a speaking tube. The speaking tube runs through the grounds a good 50 yards to the servants' quarters. At one time...
Last week "The Ungovernable" lashed out with a flood which promised to change not only its own course but also the course of the whole Sino-Japanese War. Severe breaks in the dikes near Kaifeng sent a five-foot wall of water fanning out over a 500-square-mile area, spreading death. Toll from Yellow River floods is not so much from quick drowning as from gradual disease and starvation. The river's filth settles ankle-deep on the fields, mothering germs, smothering crops. Last week, about 500,000 peasants were driven from 2,000 communities to await rescue...
...last week, the list of Franklin Roosevelt's forthcoming literary works had begun to assume the proportions of Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf. Announced last summer were the President's State Papers, edited by Judge Samuel Rosenman, in five volumes. Three weeks ago, the President announced sale of the prefaces to the Papers to Liberty Magazine, of notes on the Papers to United Feature Syndicate. Last week, it developed that Liberty was also going to publish stenographic transcriptions of Presidential press conferences, also included in the State Papers. What total price the President received...