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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Psychiatrists at Chicago's Institute of Juvenile Research watched Frank Balek's performance, offered no explanation. When his eyes were tested, no visual defect was found to account for his peculiarity. Today Frank's principal, William R. Bowlin, is on the lookout for signs of inverted sight in other pupils to catch slight tendencies in that direction that can be corrected. He stands behind a child, calls him unexpectedly. If the child turns his head to the left rather than to the right to see the principal, it is considered a sign of inversionist tendencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Upside Down Writer | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...State Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. Distilled Liquors stock flopped on the Curb to $3.50 a share. The Attorney General's office called in Robert J. Rosenthal, cashier of Richard Whitney & Co. Cashier Rosenthal revealed that Richard Whitney had established "Richard Whitney's stock control account" in January, had transferred big batches of customers' securities to it, then apparently hypothecated them for personal loans. The first such transfer revealed was $125,000 worth of securities belonging to the New York Yacht Club. Other revelations: Dick Whitney had an unsecured loan of $474,000 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ex-Knight | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Last week Edmund Wilson again demonstrated how consistently he thinks in critical terms. The demonstration: a collection of ten essays that range from an account of a Princeton week end to an introduction to Pushkin's poetry. Not a unified book like his Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers includes a slightly heavy discourse on verse technique, but to compensate for that it has more of the U. S. literary scene than Wilson's previous writing, and it contains two brilliant essays, one on the ambiguity of Henry James which is the most searching study of James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Critical Spirit | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...seems clear, therefore, that any report on the advancement of teachers that fails to take into account the financial and departmental problems outlined above, all of which the committee recognizes "may well be" studied in another investigation, is altogether inadequate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COUNCIL MISSES FIRE | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

STRANGERS-Claude Houghton-Macmillan ($2.50). Story of a happily married Englishman who drifts into a love affair with the daughter of an old friend, keeps the relationship on a high-minded plane, and returns in time to save his son's life. A thin but convincing account of a familiar triangle, a thinner and unconvincing account of emotional difficulties solved semi-mystically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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