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...beyond the Ohio River in Ohio. If you drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes one-fifth (some 100,000,000 tons a year) of the nation's soft coal. Now take a red crayon and dot the Pittsburgh Area, for in many of its countless, wretched little mining communities during the past month -and particularly last week-blood flowed...
...first half dozen, was Dr. John Martin Wheeler, 52, Columbia professor of ophthalmology, chief of Medical Center's eye department. He was named the eye institute's director. Dr. Wrheeler is a very serious gentleman. He is not garrulous; and when he talks it is in soft, slow tone. He purses his lips like his fellow Vermonter Calvin Coolidge. He works hard (twelve hours daily). Post graduate students at Columbia and the medical center are awed by him. They know that "to be trained by Wheeler is to be assured of success." He has two distractions from...
...Smith of the Coast Guard, who expects to be on the Graf Zeppelin's proposed flight this summer, last week thought he knew. Bergs drift south from the Arctic toward Labrador and Newfoundland. Normally an "ice fence" exists along those coasts, against which the bergs strike. The soft collision sends the bergs caroming eastward into the shipping lanes. This year, he believes and hopes to find, the "ice fence" has failed to form. Consequently the southing bergs must have piled up on the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts, as though Jack Frost and King Neptune, bored with spring gambling...
...Folia's Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Conductor Ernesto Halffter, Pianist Manuel Navarro and the Orquesta Betica de Camara (Columbia, $4.50)?A Sevillian orchestra, led by a pupil of Composer de Falla, gives soft, authentic color to the three lovely nocturnes...
Other Metals besides copper and steel were soft last week. Prices at leading markets were...