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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the circus will be represented at the Smoker in the person of two dwarfs and a giant, but the chances of seeing the Terror, billed as the largest ape ever kept in captivity, are remote. Frank Buck, of "Bring them back alive" fame, may supplement this performance...
...military secrets are really kept secret in peacetime but none is likely to be revealed at a public parade witnessed by foreign military attachés and foreign correspondents. Displayed for the first time in public, however, were nine heavy tanks of new design, from 18 to 25 tons in weight, varying widely in traction and armament. Still lighter than the 50-ton tanks used by Russians and French in Leftist Spain, heavier than the Italian and German affairs of about ten tons used in Rightist Spain, these new experimental tanks were apparently designed to meet the military criticism that...
Czech authorities fed and clothed the 51, kept them sheltered in Bratislava for two days. But the Czechs feared that further charity to Jews would encourage Austrian Nazis to drive Jews in thousands over into Czechoslovakia. Therefore, the Czechs piled the Jews into trucks at night, dumped them over into Hungary...
Ever since primitive medicine men cast out devils with incantations and dances, music and medicine have kept up a nodding acquaintance. Asclepius, Greek god of healing, used three methods to treat the ill: drugs, surgery and "soft music." Ancient Greek Theophrastus used music to cure snakebite; Ancient Greek Pythagoras used it to treat insanity. The savage breast of many a high-strung potentate, from Saul to Hitler, has been soothed by music's charms...
...Society's well-fed members, Dr. Alexis Carrel described the latest accomplishments of the "perfusion pump" designed with his help by Colonel Charles Lindbergh (TIME, Feb. 24, 1936) in which dozens of different organs have now been kept alive, including thyroids, parathyroids, nerve ganglions, salivary and mammary glands, livers, spleens, kidneys, lungs, and even cancerous tumors. Harvard's Harlow Shapley described four new swarms of star-galaxies or island universes, each galaxy containing billions of stars-a discovery which may bear on the agitated question of whether the all-embracing Universe is expanding or not. Grey old Ernest...