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Under Western Stars (Republic) introduces a new singing cowboy, compact, blue-eyed, diffident Roy Rogers (real name: Leonard Slye). What makes his debut notable is that the song he sings is of social significance. On the sere cinema range ridden by twangy Roy Rogers no grazing buffalo roam. Most of the time the Western stars are blotted out by great, rolling clouds of dust. In the discouraging words of Dust, Cowboy Rogers laments...
Lying low while Huxley fought evolution's battles, ridden by an anxiety neurosis until he became famous, he spent his old age reading romantic novels, died quietly at 73, concerned for the future of his investments, never realized how completely he had revolutionized the whole field of human thought...
...been spared the hitherto unavoidable, tedious, 48-hour journey from Bagdad, Iraq to Teheran over Iraq's slow railroads and Iran's slower, often impassable dirt mountain roads. Better still, they had missed having to put up for a night in one of Iran's insect-ridden rest houses. What the plane's arrival meant to Middle Eastern diplomats, however, was that the German-controlled Lufthansa had just won a significant battle with British Imperial Airways over flying concessions...
...considered outlawing opium smoking, but factors other than reform weighed heavily. Important was the fact that an estimated half of the adult population smokes opium, that it is used as solace for the famine victim, to quiet crying babies and pleading children, to deaden the pain of a disease-ridden population largely unserved by doctors or hospitals, as well as for sheer pleasure. More important was that the opium trade, transported by camel caravan into Russia, then carried over the Tran-siberian Railroad to China by the obliging Soviets, accounted for more than half of Iran's exports (excluding...
...almost 30 years pampered U. S. Senators have ridden 750 feet underground from the Senate office buildings to the Capitol, first in two rickety storage-battery cars, since 1913 by two monorail electric trolleys. All this time Representatives, who outnumber Senators 435 to 96 and are therefore a traffic problem, have had to walk through their tunnel from the old House offices to the Capitol. Last week, as Representatives were looking feebler than usual after rejecting Reorganization, they learned that Assistant Capitol Architect Horace D. Rouzer had told a House Appropriations subcommittee that Representatives might rest their legs as well...