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...honest British action. The partition plan that was presented this fall has been dropped by Whitehall after both Jews and Arabs refused to accept either part or all of the proposal. Jewish circles envisioned little merit in any "autonomous" Jewish State in Palestine that would be unable to fix its own immigration quotas and thus determine its own destiny. The Arabs, (although it is doubtful that the extremely vocal land-owning Arab spokesmen represent real Arab sentiment), have often stated that "if the British proposal permits entry of one more Jew into Palestine, it will mean war." Needless...
...familiar business of having characters invisible to their fellows on the screen, yet conveniently apparent to the audience, walking through walls and evening thunderstorms. All this is involved in a trail tale about an old gentle man who dies and insists upon staying around a while longer to fix up some family affairs, with the help of a resurrected father. But it doesn't really amount to much...
Jaffe said last night he was able to fix the time of his observations at exactly 11:50 o'clock by consulting his chronological diary, and the date by recalling that he was clearing his head from Chemistry 5 cramming and a few beers at Cronin's. The only positive fact about the silhouette, he said, seen at approximately 200 feet, was the outline of skates tied around the neck with laces, outlined against the white...
...Denver hotel on a lecture tour, Columnist Randolph Churchill encountered some faulty plumbing-to his personal annoyance but patriotic satisfaction. He complained, later reported his conversation with the plumber sent to fix matters...
...elephants of the Bertram Mills circus in London were in a painful fix with fibrositis-thickening of the trunk muscles. A correspondent cabled the news to the U.S. and added a guess. The elephants' affliction, he reported, was doubtless due to lack of peanuts...