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...Duke of Windsor endorsed a $1,000 check from the Reader's Digest (for a little piece he had sent them last winter), handed it over to the New York Daily Mirror's fund to finance wounded servicemen's telephone calls home...
...report comes up for action at the next Church Assembly in October. Meanwhile, many were likely to feel, with the tabloid London Daily Mirror, that "there is much to be said for ... the mechanism of modern propaganda to bring religious truths before the nation . . . [but] what is more important than the advertising of the article to be sold is the nature of the article itself. ... In recent times Christianity-or rather, the churches which represent it-have not been delivering the right sort of goods...
...mercy. Assuming that at that height a floating structure would be beyond the pull of the earth's gravity, they proposed to build a platform for launching rockets into interstellar space and for harnessing the sun's heat. By use of a huge reflector, like a burning mirror, they calculated that enough heat could be focused on a chosen area to make an ocean boil or to burn up a city in a flash. Their sun gun could also be used, they pointed out, to produce steam and electric power at global receiving stations...
...both esthetic and astrological controversy. On at least one point-placement of Zodiac signs and constellations-Designer James Monroe Hewlett came a cropper. As one letter-to-the-editor writer once informed the New York Times: "The ceiling stars were all put on exactly backward. Their arrangement ii a mirror image. . . . This reversal is, of course, as confusing as a map showing New York on the West Coast and San Francisco on the East. . . otherwise, very accurate...
Colonel John R. (Tex) McCrary, 34, ex-chief editorial writer of Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror and onetime son-in-law of Hearst's late Pundit Arthur Brisbane; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...