| Show s News of 1942 Tells of in England Gray Hair Steaming Stars Stars and a Breath Holder I By Dy CLIFF LANGE Released by Western Newspaper Union During the past year news of the Allies battling the Axis war production conscription wage- wage price-labor price control measures all have shoved many stories to the back pages Stories that might have been played up more if they happened during peacetime The following is a quick summary of some of those many shorts news-shorts and human interest stories JANUARY Dr Howard E. E Wilson in an address ad ad- dress drefs in New York city said that most Americans are guilty of geographic geographic geographic geo graphic illiteracy and that Hitler's successes were made mad possible because because because be be- cause of his knowledge of the geography geography geography geog geog- raphy and economics of the nations he intended taking under his protection protection protection pro Later on two Boston Mass l doctors Herbert Derbert D D. D Adams and Leo V V. V Hand lIand reported that a aman aman aman man operated on for fora a lung ailment ail all ment whose heart had stopped beating for 20 minutes was brought back to life We and In good condition They had kept his brain and the rest of the body supplied with oxygen FEBRUARY Many of you have seen in the movies movies movies ies or heard on the radio the personality per per- known as the Voice of Ex Ex- Ex- Ex He was Marion Sayle Taylor Was is the correct verb for he died tiled February 1 at the age of 53 from a heart attack in Holly Holly- wood In a middle of the month meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing Dr John W. W Studebaker U. U S. S commissioner of education told a meeting of 1500 educators in the East that schools must modify their course of studies Schools s should add technical courses stress health education and Latin America Down in Puebla Mexico the Astrophysical Astrophysical Astrophysical As- As congress was told that the Milky Way system is million million million mil mil- lion billion miles from the sun Scientists Scientists meeting at Columbia university university university sity New York were told by Prof Roger Williams University of Texas Tex Tex- as that an abundant supply of vitamins vita mins mills promotes intellectual keenness keenness keenness keen keen- ness and also are capable of fostering fostering fos fos- fos morality MARCH Hold Dold your breath on this on one Eugene J. J Frechette Jr 20 New Haven Conn junior at Wesleyan university Middletown Middletown Middletown Middle- Middle town Conn brought honors to his Alma Mater by establishing a record by holding his breath for 20 minutes 5 seconds in a z These are said to be the graves of four of the six Nazi saboteurs who landed on Long Island and Florida beaches Neither friends nor relatives relatives rela rela- tives fives claimed the bodies laboratory test OK let out your breath now What did your wife say when you told her that one A New Jersey building contractor Claude Habberstad tried out some new wooden tires he had made He drove 75 miles miles' an hour on a concrete concrete con con- crete highway and said the tires should last for to miles if the speed was kept down APRIL Somehow or other as the files flIes are scanned of this years year's news it seems that vitamins received more than usual amount of news For instance The para-amino-benzoic para acid of the vitamin B complex known as easier to say too loo was given to 30 haired gray prison inmates It restored the original color color color col col- col- col or of the hair In more than two- two thirds of the cases In eight months The libido in almost all of the cases varying in age from 29 to 57 was greatly increased In a m marriage between German Ger man and Jew the German would get by far the better of the barm bar bar- m mm e OR If RICA I wren met f ma ac GASOLINE RATION CARD GIRO X I IIII din III I M M Y M W w 1 I I Q I j gas 1 0 aAe Ka M aap t a an anFOR FOR ESSENTIAL USE I If you haven't got trot one of these cards you arent aren't driving your car carat carat carat car car- at least legally gain That is what Dr Ashley Ashley- Montague Philadelphia had to say before a meeting of anthropologists anthropologists anthropologists anthro anthro- at Harvard Another blast at the Nazi racial theory myth MAY 1 Here are a few of the Pulitzer Prize winners as as announced by Columbia Columbia Co Co- lumbia university Meritorious public public pub pub- lic lie service by a newspaper prize went to the Los Angeles Times best national reporting award went to Louis Stark of the New York Times local reporting prize to Stanton Delaplane Delaplane Delaplane Del- Del of the San Francisco Chronicle Chronicle Chronicle Chroni Chroni- cle Ellen Glasgow's novel In This Our Life also took first award On the anniversary of his consecration as bishop Pope Pius broadcast to the world appealing for peace He said in part The family is sacred it is the cradle not only of children but also of the nation of its force and its glory Do not let the family be alienated or diverted its high purpose assigned to it by God JUNE According to tG the U. U S S. S census bureau bureau bureau bu bu- reau more more than 38 million persons 25 years old or older completed at least eight years of grade or elementary elementary elementary ele ele- ele- ele school More than 18 million million million mil mil- lion in the same classification had finished high school And another thing said Dr McLaughlin l of the University of Michigan exploding stars dont don't actually explode They Just merely let off a little steam At the end of this month the na tion faced a shortage of teachers teach teach- ers especially in mathematics and physics The draft higher wages in industry were the cause of many schools deciding to close in 1943 JULY Russian composer Seventh symphony which he dedicated dedicated dedicated dedi dedi- to our struggle against Fascism Fascism Fascism Fas Fas- cism to our future victory to my native city Leningrad was heard for the first time in the U U. S. S when Faar 6 O wi N tK yip d ZY r 3 i played by the NBC symphony or or- hestra conducted by Arturo Tosca Tosca- runt in New York city Dr Grinnel Jones and coworker work co er Dr Juda both of Harvard announced an an- pounced the perfection of a new fire fire- chemical which can be sprayed or painted on wood to make It practically fire fireproof fire proof OK for plastic planes AUGUST This sounds as though it is not meant to be but it Is all in ih earnest A witness known only as Mr Murray Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray te testified before a senate mili mili- military military tary sub-committee sub on making concrete concrete concrete con con- crete carrying cargo-carrying submarines to save steel In case you have doubts remember that Sen Josh Josl Lee said he is convinced of the plans plan's Yale university announced the theaward theaward theaward I award of 10 scholarships to labor la labor labor la- la bor union leaders They'll start to school next February and undertake undertake undertake un un- un- un a research project on the development of trade unions There was no statement as to whether the continuous membership membership membership mem mem- and check oft off clauses were In the awards SEPTEMBER Along comes this month and you are told according to London AP reports an unpublished Sherlock Holmes story The Man Who Was Wanted was found by Adrian Conan Co Co- nan Doyle son of the writer He said his father didn't want it published published published pub pub- because it just wasn't up to scratch You timers old remember the Police Police Police Po Po- lice Gazette dont don't you It has been barred from from- the the- mails by the post postoffice postoffice postoffice office department Lascivious lewd material was the reason given OCTOBER The Sister Elizabeth Kenny method method method meth meth- od of treating infantile paralysis by pot hot tot applications massage and exercise exercise exercise ex ex- which has caused so much furore in lit the medical world is to tobe tobe tobe be taught in six New York hospitals Sister Elizabeth Kenny an Australian Australian Australian Austra Austra- lian is director of a University of Minnesota clinic NOVEMBER As for Stalin over In war-torn war Russia things might have seemed a little brighter when he was told that Sergei acting Patriarch has conferred the official blessing of the Russian Orthodox Church on him h Sergei is a native of Polish territory territory territory terri terri- tory taken over by the Russians Josef Stalin was called the divinely divine divine- ly anointed leader of our armed and cultural forces Celebrating the British victory in Egypt church bells in England rang between 9 a a. a m m. and noon on Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day November 15 Some of them rang for the first time since Dunkerque Dunkerque Dunkerque Dun- Dun in June 1940 when it was decreed that they should be rung only as an invasion warning DECEMBER Charles Charles Van Hefty a Chicago war plant engineer served asan as asan asan an example to hundreds of other motorists in that city and cities all over the nation lIe He had hoarded 85 gallons of gasoline just before the recent gas rationing rationing rationing ra ra- ra- ra went into effect Neighbors Neighbors Neighbors Neigh Neigh- bors kicked Police investigate ed Firemen supervised his pouring the gas down the sewer while they shot streams of water water water wa wa- wa- wa ter after it Hefty Defty was out 16 bucks |
