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Both bodies were wrapped in blankets, placed in a native umiak to be towed to Point Barrow. From Will Rogers' coat pocket fell a newspaper clipping, a picture of his 18-year-old Daughter Mary, playing in Maine in a summer theatre performance of Ceiling Zero, which has for its climax a fatal airplane crash. At Point Barrow the bodies were placed in the tiny Mission Hospital. Then Sergeant Morgan went to his radio station to tell the world about the end of an Arctic holiday of which Will Rogers had written: "We are sure having a great time...
...bales larger than last year. With world consumption of U. S. cotton down to 12,250,000 bales, the chance of getting rid of any worthwhile portion of the 8,700,000 bale surplus this year was reduced to practically zero...
From this Activist Starace, who has a zero sense of humor, passed to a condemnation of "passive words and phrases such as insediarsi" (to install oneself). According to Starace, to say that a Fascist has been installed in a new post "is to bring to mind a sedia [chair] or worse a poltrona [armchair]. Such words give the impression that an official's first act in his new post is to sit down. Inadmissable! Say instead that he has assumed or shouldered the burden of his new office...
...With the zero snap of an Argentine winter in the air last week, Buenos Aires correspondents shivered over a decree from big, harsh, faultlessly attired President Agustin P. Justo which seemed likely to cost many of them their jobs. The President's skin is tissue-thin. In a fury last year he ripped out an order to "sue the Government of the United States for reparations for besmirching Argentineans' reputations!" after the U. S. Senate's munitions probe charged the acceptance of bribes by Argentine Army munitions buyers (TIME, Oct. 8). Scared underlings finally broke to General Justo the extreme...
...mass whatever. Particles like protons and electrons, having both mass and charge, seemed to Einstein to represent "two-bridge problems"-two points of space connecting the two space-sheets. The gentle professor was relieved to find that his new mathematics dredged up no particles of less than zero mass...