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...week's end, the case of the Consul's letter was a cause celebre. In Washington, some half-dozen New England Congressmen, three Senators rose to defend the freedom of the press. Representative John E. Casey announced that an agent of the Dies Committee was on his way to Boston to investigate the Nazi Consulate's un-American activities...
...record almost every time he picked up the iron grapefruit. In six indoor meets, he put the 16-lb. shot 36 times. Nineteen times he bettered the world's record (53 ft. 1½ in.) set by Louisiana's famed 300-lb. Jack Torrance. A half-dozen times he chalked up 55 ft., once 55 ft. 8¼ in. With the 12-lb. and 8-lb. shots, he was equally prodigious...
...amusement capital of the nation is chronically bored. There are too many entertainers in Hollywood who want to be entertained on their nights off, too few gilded saloons to entertain them. Hollywood gets tired of making the round of its half-dozen bars, listening to its own prolific gossip. Recently Hollywood found an exciting new interest-the war. Before the invasion of France most Hollywooders began (and ended) their reading of the press with the movie columns. Now they are beginning to bend an ear toward Roosevelt, Churchill and Reynaud with as much respect as toward Louella Parsons or Jimmie...
...American behavior . . . supporting Oswald Spengler's theory of Western decadence? Have a half-dozen decades of comparatively easy living so softened our pioneer spirit that we of the U. S. are proving ourselves to have been as little aware of the realities of German and Japanese social dynamics as the English Conservatives have proved themselves...
...harmful, than the disease itself: drastic bloodletting for fevers, enormous doses of laudanum, heroic purges of calomel, ipecac. Hahnemann believed that minuscule doses were more powerful than heavy ones. Because of this revolutionary practice, and because he was bad for apothecaries' business, Hahnemann was hounded out of a half-dozen German towns...