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...same frayed sandals that carried St. Gandhi on his illegal salt march through India 19 months ago carried him last week up the crimson-carpeted stair of Buckingham Palace. Flunkies in scarlet & gold bowed the small, unrepentant lawbreaker into the Picture Gallery. There at the head of the receiving line stood George V in striped trousers and morning coat, Queen Mary in a shimmering silver tea gown and Edward of Wales (who had flown down especially from Liverpool) dressed like his father. The Lord Cham berlain, the Earl of Cromer, advanced through a horde of 500 tea guests, some...
...obtain chloroprene. Polymerization of the chloroprene had resulted in a sub stance similar to the product obtained by vulcanizing rubber with sulphur. Stopping the polymerization at an intermediate point gave them ? Rubber. In short, they had produced synthetic rubber from acet ylene (product of coal and limestone), salt and water. While the rubber chem ists cheered, the three young du Ponters ? W. H. Carothers, F. B. Downing, Ira Williams ? generously gave most of the credit to a 53-year-old Catholic priest, Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C., of Notre Dame University. Father Nieuwland, born a Belgian...
...imported cinemas which show the Utopian workings of the Five-Year Plan, U. S. producers often display Russia, most frequently pre-revolution Russia, as a hobgoblin empire in which misery had plenty of company and none of the inhabitants was more than one step removed from the Siberian salt-mines. The Yellow Ticket, an estimable antiquity, full of perils for Elissa Landi, shows what might have happened in old Russia when a young girl took it into her head to pay a visit to her convict father...
...Life, and life as portrayed in the theatre, is a business that must be attacked on many fronts. The only thing that serious Mr. O'Neill can inevitably be counted on to avoid is a touch of humor. Like his fellow-Hibernian Synge, he loves "all that is salt in the mouth, all that is rough to the hand, all that heightens the emotions by contest, all that stings into life the sense of tragedy...
CRIMSON editorials should always be taken with about as much salt as there is in the Dead Sea. The young men of the editorial staff get together in the afternoon, put their feet on a table...