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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theory A. To alibi his murders, Leonski talked to tentmates of his split personality. When he had a few drinks he even walked wolflike on his hands and knees to build up his own theory that there was another Eddie Leonski, a being apart, who was responsible for the horrors he committed. This theory the medical board quickly exploded. Leonski was not a schizophrenic...
When discussing Brigadier General James H. Doolittle [TIME, June 1], you state: "He was an early member of the Quiet Birdmen, the group of flyers who set themselves apart from the kiwi, an almost extinct flightless bird, and from the 'Modock,' legendary aviation term for a 'bird that flies backwards to keep the dust out of its eyes...
...about 500 pages on, in a long, catastrophic chapter, the whole machine flies apart, giving off humanistic, neo-christian, marxian, capitalistic and fascist sparks which generate great excitement, but not the terrifying image of man-at-the-edge-of-doom which was intended...
...segregation. Finding themselves shipped south of the border and down on the river, they will immediately have the chance to mix with upperclassmen. Old class lines have been so thoroughly overrun, and in fact desecrated, by the acceleration program that it would be wrong to set the Freshmen apart and wholly to themselves...
...this nature should be placed in the custody of one of the banks in Harvard Square." Now granted that it's a very difficult thing to say just what is valuable and what isn't, and an even more difficult thing to tell the banks in the Square apart, we do feel that the authors (for surely this is not the work of one hand alone) could have been more definite. No one has found out at the moment what the attitude of the banks will be, but it will be a sturdy clerk who can stand up under...