The James Logan Courier

By Steve Herman, VOA News

The world's first earthquake early warning system has begun operating in Japan. The government-developed system takes advantage of the precious seconds between the first indication of a powerful tremor and the arrival of the second, destructive terrestrial shock.  Some people have reservations about broadcasting such alerts. 

If a large earthquake were to strike Japan today, some people would receive advance notice.

First up today we have a Noveltoon, Caspar The Friendly Ghost in There's Good Boos Tonight, (1948) in which Caspar makes friends with a little fox, a friendship which comes to a sad ending. Animation by Myron Waldman, Morey Reden and Nick Tafuri. Scenics by Anto Loeb. Story by Bill Turner and Larry Reilly. Music by Winston Sharples. Narrator is Frank Gallop. Produced in 1948.


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Next we have Popeye the Sailor Man in Ancient Fistory, a Cinderella-like tale in which Olive is the princess and Popeye is the prince. Bluto is the shopowner brute who bullies Olive, only to get taught a lesson by a buff, spinach-eating Prince Popeye. Animation by Al Eugster and William B. Pattengill, story by Irving Spector, scenics by Robert Connavale, and music by Winston Sharples. Produced in 1952.



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André Paul Guillaume Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in-between the two World Wars.

Read André Gide's novel Isabelle, in French, one of two of his works available free from Project Gutenberg


André Gide