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...inoffensive to 1936 public taste. Therefore as the President fished from his modest yacht in the Bahamas last week he had with him only his military and naval aides, his physician and two relatives. One was his firstborn, James. The other was his 72-year-old Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., onetime (1914-18) member of the Federal Reserve Board, one of whose current hobbies is Washington's Park & Planning Commission and whose most recent job, given him fortnight ago, is the honorary (payless) chairmanship of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank...
Once again Stagemanager Goebbels pushed the button and the obedient German people in every village in the land opened their mouths and sang the old Dutch thanksgiving hymn. Dankgebet, which begins ''God make us free." Written by Adrian Valerius in 1597, the most popular German translation is that of Josef Weyl. Forty million Nazi voices boomed out the words: "Wir treten zum Beten vor Gott dem Gerechten" ("We step up before God the Just to Pray...
...physics. The others are Neils Bohr, physics; Hans Fischer, chemistry; Arthur H. Compton, physics; Sir Frederick G. Hopkins, physiology and medicine; Robert A. Millikan, physics; Friedrich Bergius, chemistry; August Krogh, physiology and medicine; Theodore Svedberg, chemistry; Otto Warburg, physiology and medicine; Karl Landsteiner, physiology and medicine; Edgar D. Adrian, physiology and medicine; Werner Heisenberg, physics; and Hans Spemann, physiology and medicine...
President, John T. Sapienza '34, of Irvington, New Jersey; Note Editor, Adrian S. Fisher, of Memphis, Tennessee; Legislation Editor, Archibald Cox '34, of Plainfield, New Jersey; Case Editor, Nathan B. David, of Roxbury; Book Review Editor, V. Norman Landstrom, of Middleborough; Treasurer, W. Willard Wirtz, of Dekalb, Illinois...
...BALCONY - Adrian Bell - Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Minor-keyed, well-written story of English childhood; easier to take than Proust but not nearly so effective...