Show i WHO'S NEWS THIS r WEEK By LEMUEL F F. F PARTON d Feature Service NEW YORK It YORK It is a tradition of ofA A the newspaper business well known to the craft that the reporter or photographer must never get into a news pic pie Getting Red Hot Not ture cure But some Pix Fix Newt News Hawk t times I m mes e s t the h e Breaks Break Into Inlo One d drama ram a h he e I makes is like that of ot old Omars Omar's booze clerk more precious than the stuff he sells and the rule breaks down Heres Here's bucko young Arthur Menken of ot New York in a news picture as 81 ashe ashe he be grinds out the flaming chaos of ot the Finnish city of after the Russian bombers passed over lie He is in close-in as he methodically films the blazing ruins trussed up in I military gear and quite in the mode I with a snappy iron hat which hat which the well-dressed well photographer will do dowell dowell dowell well to wear these days He lIe Is Haryard Harvard Har lIar vard yard 25 of ot impressive social socia lineage lineage lineage line line- age tall and slim but husky and all In all a fictional ace for adventurous adventurous youth considering what hes he's been mixed up in Mr I Menken has brought ht nearly near near- nearly ly Iy the entire latter day apocalypse apocalypse apocalypse apoca apoca- Into sharp focus He De has dodged every kind of 01 missile from South American poisoned arrows arrow to Japanese shrapnel and Russian air bombs bombe nicked by a bomb splinter in the Spanish civil civil il II war but suffering Buffering nothing worse than profound disillusionment disillusionment disillusion disillusion- ment about w war wr r In all aU Its moods and tenses lenses Milton 1 went blind bUnd looking Into the abyss of human horror Mr I Menken just keeps on grinding with a sharp eye for focus action and background and makes as see It It too Just Jost now hes he's shooting the Finnish war for an American film rom com com- pany He lie is the only child of ot Mr and Mrs S. S Stanwood Menken New NewYork NewYork NewYork York social Out of ot Haryard Harvard Har liar vard yard he started teasing the grim reaper by Frank Merriwell air exploits exploits ex ex- In which miraculously he a al always always al- al ways landed right side up Here and in Europe he qualified for his transport pilots pilot's license as a preliminary pre for his career as an explorer explorer ex ex- which he had mapped out for himself In the Orinoco region In South America he indulged his yen for narrow escapes and brought through his skill as a film photographer In Africa he found elephants posed for tor him nicely but he be was charged by an angry badger Wars diverted him from his exploring ca ca- ca reer Barred from tram the Spanish conflict conflict con can late In 1936 for his too-great too zeal in taking pictures there be he hastily flew off oft to China to record more of ot the giant agony of the world as Euripides characterized the mild dissension of ot his day Theres There's nothing frivolous about Mr Menken One gathers g that he would not advise restless youth to see what hes he's seen WORDS like bullets are ammu ammu- v V ninon which might have something something some some- thing to do with an editor of ot Websters Webster's Websters Websters Webster's Web Web- ster's International dictionary ber be be- r coming coining chair chair- D. D Dictionary S Scribe cr b e man of the Can Clarify the American na na- Word Munitions onal munt lions control board He lie is former Prof Prot Joseph C. C Green of ot Princeton university a teacher of ot history now on the production production pro pro- production line as he helps deploy our munitions strategically under the narrowing pressure of ot the state departments department's departments department's de do- new moral mora embargo Conferring in Washington with oil company executives he is told that the withdrawal of at high test gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line Une from Japan and Russia will set setback setback setback back the oil off companies quite a few millions but the companies express a willingness to meet the issues of national policy Mr Me Greens Green's office Is 15 at the fulcrum fulcrum ful ful- ful crum of weighty political and economic Issues issue and naturally Is 15 concerned with the Increasingly urgent argent consideration of monitions moni munt lions reserves for national de do tense lense The word monitions munitions like Uke many other words takes In more territory than It did when Professor Green herded It Into Webster Webster's dictionary back In 1929 Incidentally at that time be he was also an editor of 01 American Ameri Amerl can Indian terms When moral Issues Intrude as of today It Is well to have a word expert around A native of Cincinnati born in 1887 Mr Green was graduated from Princeton in 1908 and did postgraduate post grad work there and in Europe lie He was Instructor In history at Bordentown Borden Borden- town Military institute assistant professor of history at Princeton and associate professor from 1921 1924 He lIe was a major of infantry In the war holding home borne and foreign decorations decora bons was with Belgian Near East Relief missions and entered state department in 1930 lie He came to munitions mu mu- control as a humanist widely known in the field of Gt political economic economic eco eco- and social ocia research |