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...Marquis, Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, Actor Charles Winninger, Mrs. Charles Winninger (stage name: Blanche Ring), Publicist Bruce Barton, Jackie Coogan. The collection was entitled A Log of Laughter, One Laugh A Day. Provided they do not get stranded in the North, MacMillan and friends can count upon one loud laugh per day until the return. Specimen joke: "A Jew was solving a crossword puzzle. He said to his family: 'Give me a word in one letter that means a food, and it isn't T. Quick. Give up? X.' (Meaning eggs for those who do not get the accent...
Last week, on the 510th anniversary of John Hus's death, Czecho-Slovakia celebrated her first "Nation Day" by commemmorating Hus. Up went the Hussite flag over the Presidential Castle and loud and strong were the cries from Rome. The Papal Nuncio was recalled and the Czecho-Slovak Minister to the Holy See was ordered to return to Prague. The situation had the earmarks of a first-class...
...Vienna, Soprano Maria Olszewska -she who, annoyed by Maria Jeritza's loud interruptions at a performance of Die Walküre, assailed the latter with a shot of saliva and was forthwith dismissed from the Vienna Staatsoper (TIME, May 25)-last week was reinstated. Offered part of her back pay, she accepted it but announced that, rather than use any of the management's "dirty" money for herself, she would give it to charity...
...trade that is more related to personal consumption-clothes, boots, shoes and furniture distribution. The importance of that is it shows that up to now, during these difficult times through which we are passing, the purchasing power of the community as a whole had not been seriously impaired." (Loud derisive laughter from the Labor benches...
LORD DESBOROUGH, ruefully: "I wish somebody had brought fleas to my attention before." (Loud laughter...