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...runty little man with a pistol-butt scar on his hollow cheek pattered into an office in the Department of Agriculture last week. He undid a paper package, produced a pair of shears and two pots of paste. With these arranged neatly on his desk, Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, demagog extraordinary and twice (1916-20, 1928-32) Governor of Mississippi, inducted himself into a job announced officially as "having charge of assembling current information records for the Adjustment Administration from news, magazine and other published sources." Paper-clipper Bilbo's reported salary...
...much in the news last week: the "Marrying Mdivanis" of Georgia. In 1923 a General Zakhari Mdivani appeared in Paris. As a Mohammedan chieftain of the Caucasus, he was recognized as a Bey or Prince by the Russian Imperial Court. which acknowledged all Georgian "Princes" possessed of a pair of shoes, a stone house, a flock of sheep and a rifle. Prince Mdivani (pronounced Mmmdivani) had little money, but. as a Circassian Cornelia, he had his jewels; five children, all very good looking...
Trick for Trick (Fox). The most satisfactory way to see this picture is to arrive in the middle, when Azrah (Ralph Morgan) and the great La Tour (Victor Jory), a pair of major league magicians, are apparently having a contest to see which one can trick the other. You will then be utterly mystified when the great La Tour is found stabbed to death; when a young man in a raccoon coat turns up under a collapsible couch; when two deformed characters, one of them only able to speak with his fingers, crawl through a window and try to drag...
Periodically a colony's young kings & queens swarm out into the open, shed their wings. Those which survive birds, lizards and man pair off to start new colonies. They care for offspring until enough workers have grown up to take care of the community. Then the king & queen settle down to steady reproduction. The queen becomes a huge inert egg-laying machine with a production capacity of some 50,000 per day. The king is a tiny fellow whose main function is to be the queen's husband. They cohabit for life, which may last ten years. Their...
...adherence at Memphis last week. Speakers still felt obliged to define terms meticulously. The thyroid is a double-lobed ductless gland in the neck, which ancients compared to a shield. (Greek thyreos means shield, and the word is properly thyreoid.) But the thyroid spans the windpipe more like a pair of saddle bags. In most people the lobes can be seen as gentle swells along the sides of the neck above the collar bone. The thyroid increases in size normally and temporarily in boys and girls at puberty, in women during menstruation and lactation...