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...architect, Paul Philippe Cret. Last week the first completed piece of sculpture, Spanning the Continent, by Robert Laurent, was quietly installed in one completed terrace. A goodly distance from Mr. Samuel's lonely Viking, it consists of a stumpy, sun-bonneted female figure helping a gaunt pioneer youth push a large wheel in the direction of the Philadelphia Zoo. Critic Dorothy Grafly of the Philadelphia Record coldly reported: "Even the heads seem parts screwed...
Hitler will push on into the Balkans, Professor Langer believes, although he will not take them into his pan-German empire. His present aim is to reunite Bohemia with the other Germans, and then to extend Nazi control over non-German elements...
...victory was supplied when twelve Japanese warships, 20 warplanes and a landing party of 1,000 sailors and marines planted the Rising Sun flag on the important, poorly defended island of Amoy, in South China. While the capture of Amoy might mean that the Japanese were preparing for a push in South China to cut off Chiang Kai-shek's munitions route, most observers believed that Japan wanted an easy victory to announce at home and that the restless, jealous Japanese Navy wanted a little glory for itself...
Elephant tennis players trimmed Lowell 6 to 3, but it is too late for Eliot to push Kirkland out of first place, since the Deacons have an almost clean record. Lowell still remains, in first place in the golf standings, but by a much slimmer margin then before the Bell boys tasted defeat yesterday...
...seating of five men in the Presidential chair and now hankers to fill the position himself. The Plan, criticized by a good many Cubans as an attempt to regiment all phases of their national life, is regarded by Boss Batista as too much of a controversial issue to push at the time of an election...