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...This sudden surge of loyalty to Dick Harlow's squad is not explained entirely by their improved work the last two games. There is a baser reason than that. For it develops that the football fans are eager to see the famed Navy card stunts, the like of which hasn't been displayed in Soldiers Field within the memory of oldest observers...
White Generalissimo Francisco Franco's "Silver Falcons of Death" last week swooped silently over Madrid and for the first time since Spain's civil war began the capital, with its refugee-swollen population of 1,500,000, cowered and shuddered beneath the impact of live bombs. So sudden was this first attack that there was no time to sound air-raid warnings, and before thousands of pedestrians and motorists on the streets could be herded indoors, the skies were raining shrapnel. Over 125 were killed, including 70 children playing in the grounds of a schoolhouse. Three Bombs fell...
...ceasing to be a British Mandate and entering the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932), London has been anxious lest this key Kingdom on the route to India take the pan-Arab bit in its teeth and kick over the traces. These fears were sharpened by the sudden death of Irak's King Feisal, who had always been able to see things more or less from British angles (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). Last week his young son King Ghazi, educated in British boys' schools, was abruptly mastered by pan-Arab chiefs of his own Army...
...flaw last week in It Can't Happen Here as a piece of dramaturgy. Despite its faults, it is a serviceable and occasionally terrifying presentation of Sinclair Lewis' thesis that the rubber-truncheon and concentration-camp sort of Fascism is a creeping disease and not a sudden explosion. Called to a Manhattan stage for a speech after last week's first performance, Author Lewis appeared, looked at his watch, barked: "I've been making a speech since seven minutes to nine," and vanished into the wings...
Having inherited $35,000,000 from her second husband, Shipping Magnate Sir Robert Paterson Houston, Dame Fanny Lucy Houston can afford to indulge her girlish sense of fun, her matronly sense of Patriotism. In 1931 her sudden gift of $500,000 enabled Britain's aviators to enter and win-the final Schneider Trophy...