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...hails the Revolution as the beginning of a new era, but for many it is the dawn of their last day. Though, like all well-behaved Soviet novels, Darkness and Dawn seeks safety in numbers from the bourgeois bugaboo of a "hero," from its scores of principal characters a half-dozen stand...
...part of the great political drama presented every Presidential election year, a half-dozen Hamlets last week rushed to the national footlights, threw out their chests, opened their mouths in mighty soliloquies. Who was to be or not to be President after Jan. 20, 1937 was the question...
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (Brothers Shubert, Producers) falls comfortably into the mold of its 24 predecessors. None of its comedy is funny enough to make anyone wear himself out laughing. On the other hand, Vincente Minnelli's diverting surrealist decor, the arts of a half-dozen stars and the blandishments of 48 show girls are likely to keep most spectators from going to sleep. Only if he expects Josephine Baker to be something out of the ordinary will a ticket holder be actually disappointed by this year's Follies...
...Curie-Joliots' first results in artificial radioactivity have been duplicated and extended in a half-dozen countries, especially by California's Lawrence and Italy's Fermi. Dr. Lawrence obtained 5,000,000-volt gamma rays from salt, evoked the possibility of injecting harmless but radioactivated salt compounds into the human body as a cancer remedy. Dr. Fermi has coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium. copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, a dozen others...
...were no less startling than in the first row. The first 150-pound crew took an early lead which it held to within a hundred yards of the finish line, where it caught a crab. The first Freshman crew took up the lead here and held it for a half-dozen strokes, but they, too, caught a crab here and it was the second Freshman that was first across the line. One of the men in the third Freshman broke an oar near the start...