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Poor reproduction the officials of the Germanic Museum can remedy in today's presentation, though they can hardly improve the rather inconvenient Renaissance Hall. But the very inconvenience of that hall may prove mortal to future productions; the use of the Geography Institute might be more acceptable to those who are vulnerable to drafts and had ventilation. Hans Sachs would point the further moral that now that Harvard has a chapel, a Geography Institute, a business school, and seven well-run hotels, it might well replace Sanders Theater as the last word in auditoria...
...conviction of one Scottsboro (Ala.) Negro on the mortal charge of raping two white girls (TIME, April 17 et ante): indefinite postponement of the trial of the other six defendants; in Decatur, Ala. Grounds: alleged insults to Alabamans by Chief Defense Counsel Samuel S. Leibowitz, creating "sentiment that might not allow a fair trial." Interviewed by a northern newshawk about the Alabama jurors. Leibowitz was quoted as saying, "If you ever saw those creatures; those bigots, whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes pop out at you like frogs, whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy...
...generally successful. But there came a day when his sons set out against his warning. The near-disastrous storm they ran into was only the start of their troubles. When they were finally shipwrecked on England's coast they found themselves in the land of Uncle Ivar, their mortal enemy. In a last good, solid. head-cleaving fight they managed to get him down before his carls did for them...
...Fletcher's Castoria, Life Savers, 3-In-One Oil, Danderine, Bayer's Aspirin, Vitalis, Vick's Vapo-Rub, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Ingram's Shaving Cream, Gastrogen Tablets, Sal Hepatica, Ipana, Cascarets and scores of other things to purge, beautify, bolster and assuage mortal beings. A lesser fount of Drug income is in its control (75%) of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., the owner of the 900 famed Boots Cash Chemists shops which are scattered throughout England...
...second wife of Mexico's political boss and onetime President. General Plutarco Elias Calles; of a brain tumor; in Mexico City. Last June General Calles took his wife to Boston for a brain operation by famed Dr. Harvey Gushing who operated but told General Calles the tumor was mortal. General Calles' first wife, Natalia Chacon Calles, mother of nine, died in 1927 at Los Angeles whither Mexican law forbade Mexico's President to follow during his administration. The second wife, mother of two, singer, law & dentistry student, whom General Calles married in 1930, died with a double...