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...years ago Charles S. Ryckman, an editor of Fremont, Neb., won the Pulitzer Prize with an editorial arguing that the reason Nebraska regularly re-elected Norris was that through him it could take a slap at the East. Since then this idea has gained much currency, but unfortunately almost no Nebraskans subscribe to it. They do not mind political irregularity for they are themselves politically irregular, frequently electing Democratic Governors at the same time that they vote Republican in national elections. Senator Norris, who has never had a political organization at home, has generally a more powerful individual appeal...
...ready to hand. It might be untrue but it was logical that Premier Chiang should have decided to enlist in a Chinese war against Japan the aid of that same Soviet Government which enabled him to conquer China in the first place and which only last fortnight received the slap in Moscow's face of a Japanese-German accord against Communism (TIME, Dec. 7). No stranger things happen anywhere than among Chinese generals and there were a whole batch of them in Sian last week. They may or may not have said to themselves, "Our sorely exploited country must...
...Adolf Hitler held still locked up in a Berlin sanatorium Nobel Peace Prizeman Carl von Ossietzky. Although the Prize Prisoner protested that his health is quite good enough for him to go to Norway and receive the $40,000 which the Nobel Committee wants to give him as a slap at Dictatorship (TIME, Dec. 7), Nazi newsorgans stated firmly that Nazi doctors do not think Pacifist von Ossietzky, whom they call a "traitor to Germany," can leave the sanatorium to which he was hustled from a Nazi prison camp when he seemed about to get the Prize...
...better idea to youngsters than to oldsters, the doings of zealous local chapters never escape tut-tutting at sessions of the National Interfraternity Conference, which represents the elders of 62 U. S. Greek Letter societies. Meeting last week in Manhattan, the Conference administered to Hell Week its severest slap to date by resolving "to give cordial support to measures to abolish Hell Week taken by any college or university...
Musical history is slyly footnoted by the mishaps that befall famed artists. Metropolitan Opera veterans still chuckle over the horse that ate Hagen's beard years ago in Gotterdammerung, the slap Geraldine Farrar gave Caruso in Carmen, the hot potato he mischievously pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown...