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That he could never be, but James Thurber quickly established himself as one of the ablest, easily the maddest member of the neurotic crew that staffs the brightest weekly in the U. S. For two years no one but his friend and fellow editor, Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, could see anv merit in the thousands of drawings with which Thurber covered all the loose stationery in The New Yorker office. Artist Thurber may not be a second Picasso but he is indubitably one of the most prolific telephone booth moral ists in the world...
Chief Executioner. England's University of Birmingham conducts the ablest and most consistently pursued research study of the Soviet Union. In its latest report on the Second Five-Year Plan occurs this quiet, profoundly significant comment: "The legal and administrative compulsion to economic activity under penalty of capital and other punishment is so closely associated with the Soviet system of planning that a study of the U. S. S. R. economy at the present time should actually begin with an explanation of the criminal code. . . . The unusual duties which devolve nowadays on the Soviet public prosecutor may be judged from...
...question was asked by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, one of the world's ablest theologians. The answer was given by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, one of the most famed medical missionaries in the West African jungle. The occasion was Dr. Schweitzer's appearance in England last October to deliver the Hibbert Lectures, given annually by men of renown at Manchester College, Oxford and University College, London. To report Dr. Schweitzer's words The Christian Century had a stenographer on hand. Last week and the week before that alert U. S. interdenominational weekly summarized the Hibbert Lectures, which will later be published...
Great curiosity awaits the Shostakovich opera which will be given this winter in three U. S. cities.* Soviets regard the 28-year-old composer as their ablest musicmaker. His murderous heroine is really a lovable young woman driven to her crimes by incompatible bourgeois surroundings. One sample played last week by Rodzinski follows the scene in which Ekaterina (Lady Macbeth) murders her father-in-law. The second describes two drunken moujiks as they discover her husband's body hidden in a cellar. When audiences can see the spooky doings on the stage they may be impressed by the Shostakovich...
First among the Associate Justices is Willis Van Devanter who has been on the Supreme bench since 1911. The New Dealers have written him down as their opponent, perhaps their ablest one. Seldom does he write opinions but his verbal views delivered to his colleagues in camera bear great weight. As a youngish Republican lawyer he originally went to Washington on the ample coattails of the late Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming...