Word: longs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...announced their deal last week, no mention was made of the U. S. Neighboring countries (presumably Brazil, Paraguay, probably Bolivia and Chile) will be invited to participate in the plans. The U. S. stayed out of the picture, but Ambassador Norman Armour and Foreign Minister Roca have recently had long heart-to-heart talks. Last week the U. S. lent Argentina $60,000,000. Before the bases are built, the U. S. will most probably lend technical assistance-as well as money...
...Benny Goodman made a long-heralded appearance in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall as clarinet soloist with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in Mozart's rippling Concerto in A Major, Debussy's First Rhapsody. No one should have been surprised. Trained in his youth by a Chicago Symphony clarinetist, Franz Schoepp, Benny Goodman can tootle with the two or three best in the world. Critics could find little fault with his playing of Mozart and Debussy-unless it was a slight excess of refinement and dignity...
Among his customers the following day were a couple of Yale students. Amused, they copied Madden's scrawly rebuke, showed it to their friends. Madden became a "character." His joint was on the map for Yalemen, Park Avenue debs, Long Island's polo crowd. Encouraged by his customers, Joe began to write weekly essays-hard-earned wisdom couched in his own lingo. He had his pieces punctuated by a race-track handicapper with a high-school education, mailed them to his clientele. In ivy-clad Eastern dormitories, Madden's essays had a wider circulation than those...
...when it approaches the sun-for the tail of a comet consists of very thin material driven away from the head by pressure of solar radiation. So far, according to Harvard, the Cunningham's tail is developing "very, very nicely." It was more than 1,600,000 miles long last week and still growing. It is possible that the earth will pass through the tail. If so, no harm will be done. The earth probably swept through the tail of Halley's comet in 1910 and no one but astronomers was the wiser...
...Christians Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, secretary of the World Council of Churches, says, "This is one of the most subtle and terrible persecutions in all history." But the blood of martyrs is the seed of faith. Though the Nazis have jailed over 10,000 pastors, priests and monks for long or short periods, an unknown number have been beaten to death, the churches stand far higher in German esteem today than they did in the easygoing '20s. Church congregations have grown remarkably. Sales of the Bible have shot up from 830,000 copies...