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...ordered a retreat to the Seine when General Joseph Simon Galliéni learned through one of his airmen of an amazing German move. Though Germany's Armies on the Western Front had slashed through Belgium and Northern France until they were almost in sight of Paris, their swift advance had suddenly been halted by orders from General von Moltke's High Command-clue apparently to terrific pressure by the Russian Armies on Germany's Eastern Front. "As a matter of fact, was there a Battle of the Marne?" is the staggering question asked in General Galli...
Died. Edgar James Swift, 72, psychologist, author (Mind in the Making,* The Psychology of Childhood); in Hollis, Maine...
...Bethlehem. Pa., and with the Juilliard Orchestra and Opera Company. Now 33. Bob Crawford is musical director of the Newark Music Foundation, radio conductor of the Newark Symphony Orchestra, soloist and occasional conductor of summer concerts at Chautauqua, N. Y. Increasingly busy, he is a licensed airplane pilot; by swift swoops he filled close engagements this summer in Fredonia, N. Y., Mystic, Conn, and Bradford...
...that the Schneider races have been discontinued, the Thompson Trophy, held in connection with the National Air Races, assumes importance as the world's foremost air speed contest. The event was the climax of last fortnight's meet at Cleveland. Eight swift planes started, among them Doolittle in the chunky, barrel-like Gee-Bee racer with an 800-h. p. Wasp in its fat nose, and the pilot's cockpit far back amid the fanlike tail surfaces. Another starter was minuscule "Jimmy" Haizlip who broke the transcontinental record last fortnight. Before the end of the race Doolittle, his eyes watery...
...make people afraid of war. If the probability of death and torture is made sufficiently high the spirit of adventure will not prevail against it." With no pretense at being a philosopher, he can be as effectively philosophical as Schopenhauer: "Christ who called us sons of God, and Swift who called us little odious vermin, are both making a quite unnecessary fuss about almost nothing...