Show wims NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service FEW EW bork ORK it is a tradition of anthe na the newspaper business well known to the craft that the reporter or photographer mus never get into a news pic getting red hot ture but some fix news hawk times the breaks into one d r ra a m ma a h a makes is like that of old omars booze clerk more precious than the stuff he sells and the rule breaks down heres bucko young arthur menken of new york in a news picture as he be grinds out the flaming chaos of the finnish city of valpuri after the russian bombers passed over he is close in as he methodically films the blazing ruins trussed up in military gear and quite in he mode with a snappy iron hat which the well dressed photographer will do well to wear these days he is harvard 25 of impressive social lineage tall and slim but husky and all in all a fictional ace for adventurous youth considering what hes been mixed up in mr menken has brought nearly the entire latter day apocalypse into sharp focus lie ile has dodged every kind of missile from south american poisoned arrows to japanese shrapnel and russian air bombs nicked by a bomb splinter in the spanish civil war but suffering nothing worse than profound disillusion mant about war in all its moods and tenses milton went blind looking into the abyss 0 of fh human uman horror mr IVI menken enken just keeps keep on grinding w with ath a sharp eye for focus action and background and makes us see it too just now hes shooting the finnish war for an american film corn com pany he Is the only child of mr and mrs S stanwood menken new york social registe rites out of harvard he started teasing the grim reaper by boyfrank frank merriwell air exploits in which miraculously he always landed right side up here and in europe he qualified fled for his bis transport pilots license as a pre 11 for his career as an explorer 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 skin skill as a film photographer in africa he found elephants posed for him nicely but he was charged by an angry badger wars diverted him from his eap exp exploring loring ca reer barred from the spanish conflict late in 1938 1936 tor for his too to og great zeal in taking pictures there be hastily flew off to china to record more of the giant agony of the world as euripides characterized the mild dissension of his day theres nothing frivolous about mr menken one gathers that he would not advise restless youth to see what hes seen like bullets are ammunition WORDS which might have something to do with an editor of websters international dictionary becoming chair dictionary bem man a n 0 otobe f t h can clarify the american na word mu munitions nt onal control board he Is former prof joseph C green of princeton university a teacher of history now on the production line as he helps deploy our munitions strategically under the narrowing pressure of th the estate state departments part ments hew moral embargo conferring in hi washington with oil company executives he is told that the withdrawal of high test gasoline from japan and russia will set back the oil companies quite a few millions but the companies express a willingness to meet the issues of national policy mr greens office Is at the fulcrum of weighty political and economic issues and nat naturally is concerned with the increasingly urgent consideration of munitions reserves for national defense the word munitions like many other words takes in more re territory than it did when professor green herded it into We websters biters diction dictionary ari back in 1929 incidentally at that time he was also an editor of american indian terms when lien 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 1008 and did post grad aate work there and in europe he was instructor in history at borden town military institute assistant professor ot of history at princeton and associate professor from 1924 30 he was a major of infantry in the war holding home and foreign decorations was with belgian near east beliet missions and entered state department in 1930 he came to munitions m U control as a humanist widely known in the field of political eco and social research |