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Yellowstone National Park's Splendid Geyser, after 39 years silent digestion of water, steam, rock and heat, last week labored and threw up a 100-ft. spout of steaming water. Daisy Geyser nearby, which has been erupting every 100 min. ever since white men have known it, paused. After a two-hour delay Daisy went to work again. Old Faithful, some distance away, faithfully continued its 65-min. spouting, but small geysers, boiling springs and mudholes nearer the Splendid were drained of their waters. Two park employes posted themselves beside the Splendid to record its behavior...
Germany's new Iron Chancellor 46-year-old Heinrich Brüning, had several things in his favor. The country remained peaceable; there was little rioting. In Düsseldorf, Coblenz and Gelsenkirchen gangs of hooligans threw up barricades, exchanged shots with the police, made desultory raids on food shops. But for the most part people seemed to remember too vividly for repetition the horrors of Germany's other great crisis, the inflation period of 1923. There was no direct parliamentary opposition. For the past year Iron Chancellor Brüning has managed to rule Germany...
...which all the outlines were tremendous and all the details sordid; when gas-jets struggled feebly through the circumambient fog, when the hour of dinner might be at any moment between two and six, when the doses of rhubarb were periodic and gigantic, when pet dogs threw themselves out of upper storey windows, when cooks reeled drunk in areas, when one sat for hours with one's feet in dirty straw dragged along the streets by horses, when an antimacassar was on every chair, and the baths were minute tin circles, and the beds were full of bugs...
Thoughtful Spaniards agree that Sosthenes Behn, chairman of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., was largely responsible for the revolution that threw out King Alfonso. Many Spaniards cannot read; 45% of them are illiterate; but they can all listen. Revolutionary doctrines spread to the farthest villages of Spain thanks to the telephone and radio systems ("best in Europe") which I. T. & T. in stalled and operates through its subsidiary, Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana. Yet last week thousands of Spanish revo lutionaries rose against their foster-father...
Many such stories about him exist. Once, while walking along icy Fifth Avenue he slipped, threw himself through a flying somersault, landed on his feet, unperturbed kept on walking...