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Last week the London Daily Mirror said that Corinne had been the mistress of Otto Abetz, the Nazi boss of Paris, for three years. She is currently the first lady of Paris, said the Mirror, and her salon is a meeting place for high-ranking Nazis and highly placed French collaborationists. Corinne came by her preference for Germans honestly. Her father, Jean Luchaire, is a leader of the pro-Nazi National People's Party, editor of the Nazi-controlled Le Matin and Les Nouveaux Temps...
While paddling along four successive rivers in their difficult trek through the little-known eastern Andes, the party met many increasingly savage Indian tribes. One of the Yale men tried to trade with them using the traditional mirrors and gaudy ribbons as exchange, but when he offered one native a cheap mirror which he had extracted from his pack, the uncivilized Indian matched it with an identical article from his own pocket...
...world had demanded-a superficial, lovely creature, who walked, and talked, and laughed, accepting praise and admiration with a shrug of the shoulder as natural homage to her beauty, careless, insolent, deliberately indifferent, and all the while another Dona, a strange, phantom Dona, peered at her from a dark mirror and was ashamed...
...Dudley Joy Morton makes his patients walk barefooted across a black box lined with mirrors. A light fixture is rigged in the box so that pressure of the patient's feet on the soft top of the box makes bright spots on the image in the mirror; from the spots, which record the distribution of pressure, he can diagnose their foot ills. To doctors meeting last week at the Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in Atlantic City, Dr. Morton, professor of anatomy at Columbia, demonstrated his black box, explained what he had found out by studying the human foot...
Though astronomers still gaze at the stars, most telescopes are now in effect cameras. Essential part is a concave spherical mirror which gathers starlight, focuses it on a photographic plate. But mirrors hitherto could focus light from but a small section of sky on the plate without fuzzing and distortion. In the Schmidt camera, however, the light rays pass through a concave-convex lens which aims them at the mirror at such angles that they are reflected upon the plate in sharp focus (see diagram). Photographs of distant, dim nebulae formerly required exposures of 50 hours-five hours a night...