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Neutral observers both in and out of Russia grew more sanguine. From inside Russia Correspondent Philip Jordan cabled the London News Chronicle: "If Hitler ever sits in the Kremlin as anything but a prisoner, I will eat the fur hat I bought yesterday...
Thus, according to Rudyard Kipling, sang the great sleek Callorhinus alascanus, the fur seal, of his summer home in the Bering Sea, the barren volcanic islands of the Pribilof Archipelago. To these islands each May the males come first, from their winter haunts in the north Pacific-huge, scarred 600-lb. bulls, full-coated three-year-old "bachelors." By the time the females arrive from the south with their pups, weeks later, the bulls have battled themselves ragged and bloody fighting for places to set up their harems on the rocky ledges of the rookery. Each bull takes some...
...Convention, will presumably begin hunting seals in the sea. Reason given: seals were eating squid and devilfish sought by Japan's fishing fleet. Whatever the reason, it portends decimation or extermination for the seals. At the Pribilof killing grounds only the bachelors are slaughtered for the prime fur. In pelagic sealing hunters often shoot females with pups, often lose four out of five of the carcasses...
...Scotch and is master of both women and wit. When this 20th Century animal tackles the 20th Century problem of getting his newly-married brother (Lyle Talbot) and his reluctant prima donna bride (Anna Sten) out of their separate rooms and into the happy marriage bed, the sophisticated fur really flies and an excellent time is had by all. Llye Talbot is solid and adequate on the boards, and Anna Sten is fresh as a breeze. Half of the lines are good, slightly-elevated and very funny bull-session talk--take this in instead of the next session...
Last week the old Pencoyd works was a mere speck in a series of new munitions plants that stretch for two and a half miles along the Schuylkill. They include electric furnace, forging and machining operations, are integrated from steel fur nace to finished 75, of which Empire now makes four a day, will soon make...