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These are among the cheerful points of Aztec history mustered by Archeologist George Clapp Vaillant of the American Museum of Natural History in his new book Aztecs of Mexico (Doubleday Doran; $4). Assembling the wealth of new historical evidence dug up since William Hickling Prescott finished his great Conquest of Mexico in 1843, it will muffle the sighs which four generations have sighed over "the tragic destruction of a great culture by lustful Spanish barbarians...
...book was written by one Giselher Wirsing, editor of Munich's Muenchner Neueste Nachrichten. It was publicized as "a literary bombshell of Non-Intervention" by Prescott Dennett, Washington's one-man pro-Nazi Columbia Press Service. Its preface was by lynx-eyed George Sylvester Viereck, who gets $1,000 a month as "adviser and literary stylist" for the German Library of Information (official propaganda agents) and as representative for the Neueste Nachrichten. Questioned, Stylist Viereck first said, "I am in an uncommunicative mood," later admitted that he arranged for the book's publication...
...Garand and Springfield, and 2) the different systems of combat fire which each represented. The old-fashioned Springfield puts down a sure but comparatively slow fire (12-15 aimed shots a minute, for an average rifleman), is therefore the darling of those who believe with Colonel William Prescott of Bunker Hill ("Don't fire until you see the white of their eyes") in deliberate, sharpshooting marksmanship. The Garand, 3 to 3½ times faster, is therefore the logical choice of those who put high fire power above all else. (See TIME's photo-essay on the Pacific...
...along. He is also the Slo-Gro Corp. Softspoken, Virginia-born, 33-year-old Joker Moran is famous for having hunted for a needle in a haystack (see cut), sold an icebox to an Eskimo, reenacted the battle of Bunker Hill with twelve strabismic stooges to prove that Colonel Prescott was silly when he issued the command: "Don't fire until you see the white of their eyes...
...discussions at Brooks House. These will deal with group work and tutoring; speaking and entertainment; summer work and foreign students; and, for the ladies, cooking and sewing instruction. The first three of these will be led by members of Brooks House, while the fourth will be directed by Lucy Prescott of Radcliffe College and a Boston settlement house worker...