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Biggest is the Wacht im Westen, which resembles the Frankfurter Zeitung; smallest the Armee-Kurznachrichten, a single half-size sheet of Army notices. The Air Force has its own paper, Der Adler von Friesland (The Frisian Eagle...
Most famed among the secessionists are Carl Jung of Zürich, who has "retreated from psychoanalysis" into semi-religious therapy, and Alfred Adler, who died in Aberdeen two years ago. Adler held that man's mainspring is not sexual desire but a desire for superiority. Physical infirmity or family bullying produces an "inferiority complex." This complex, in turn, forces "overcompensation," or a transformation of weakness into strength. Because Demosthenes stuttered and Beethoven was deaf, said Adler, they developed inferiority complexes. Demosthenes compensated in magnificent oratory, Beethoven in magnificent music...
Last week the Times's, lawyers put the men who run the paper on the stand. Managing Editor James testified that the memorandum was "a joke" and the word "spies" referred only to "voluntary informants." Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, general manager of the Times, said that the paper had once had an espionage system but has eliminated it. Publisher Sulzberger admitted the Times had kept close watch on some of its employes, defended the practice as an effort "to avoid raising issues with the Guild." While he was on the stand Publisher Sulzberger took the opportunity of declaring himself...
Turning back the configuration of heaven to 7 B.C., when a conjunction of three planets occurred which may have been the guiding star of the Three Wise Men, was no Stokley invention. It was originated as a Christmas program by Director Philip Fox of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, but Stokley improved on it, added music, a crèche, soft lights, a cardboard tableau of the wise...
There are four planetariums already operating in the U. S.-the Adler in Chicago, the Pels in Philadelphia, the Hayden in Manhattan, the Griffith in Los Angeles. All were financed in whole or part by philanthropists. So also is the new Buhl in Pittsburgh, financed out of a $13,000,000 legacy left to the Buhl Foundation by Henry Buhl Jr., founder of Pittsburgh's Boggs and Buhl department store, who died...