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...Brandy staggered into the hut and collapsed to the floor, with arrows sticking out of him like he were a pin-cushion. Doc jumped toward him. 'Get me a red-hot poker,' he yelled. Then he grabbed at the arrows and yanked them out one by one. Brandy didn't let out a yelp, and only the muscles in his powerful shoulders, set hard as rocks, showed what he was going through. He was getting groggy, the deadly curare poison was getting him. Butch brought the poker, and Doc shoved it into the wounds. 'Cauterize them,' he grunted. There...
Most official German publications have tried to pin war guilt largely on Great Britain. Last week an official statement was issued in Berlin which helped along this favorite Nazi thesis but which also recounted the tricky diplomacy of Georges Bonnet, French Foreign Minister for the 18 crucial months before war's outbreak...
...elastic term. In Manhattan's huge Metropolitan Museum it is stretched to cover stained glass, mummies, armor, textiles, musical instruments, a Hindu temple, an Etruscan safety pin, acres of painting and sculpture-all crammed into a great grey building that sprawls along four city blocks. To direct this illustrated history of human culture the Metropolitan's trustees last week elected Francis Henry Taylor, 36, since 1931 director of the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum...
...five minutes. It was a brilliant bit of wrestling that put Sophomore Redmon in the running with the more experienced Varsity men. It is his third fall of the season. Tom Lacey registered another fall for the Crimson by flattening Hinkle in 1:38, which is the quickest pin this season...
...human who is not trying to achieve, at this terrible cost, a world in which peace can endure. Neither is he a true statesman if he does not realize that, under the present system of the balance of power and economic nationalism, such a world is impossible. He must pin his hopes on a world federation; and though men have tried this before and failed, he must realize that to say it is impossible is to say that man as a whole has not a single common interest save war, that he is nothing more than an animal...