Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general convict psychology. In Sing Sing, Richard Whitney is a celebrity and a man apart, but he is not likely to become a group leader. This was indicated last week by a thoroughgoing analysis of leadership in prison which appeared in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. The author is Sociologist Donald Clemmer of the Illinois Department of Public Welfare...
...tiny island of St. Gildas, off the northern coast of Brittany, went Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh once again to visit and collaborate with his great & good friend, Author-Scientist Alexis Carrel (Man, The Unknown). Few days later it became known that Colonel Lindbergh had purchased the nearby island of Illiec, complete with chateau...
...keeping his feet on the ground," Alfred Mossman Landon, Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 Presidential opponent, received Judge Magazine's "High Hat" award. Cracked he: "I am not as famous as a humorist as some others who have received this award*-particularly the author of that well-known gag, 'We are on our way back because we planned it that way.' " Few days later, when Citizen Landon was asked what he thought of Author...
...mountain climbing made his African years memorable. First was the great, squat, "pudding-like" dome of Kilimanjaro, 19,710 feet, in Tanganyika, the highest mountain in Africa. Since the Germans built huts on it during the War, at 8,500 feet and at 11,500 feet, Author Tilman says cavalierly that Kilimanjaro offers ''no climbing difficulties whatsoever." The great jagged tower of Mount Kenya, 17.040 feet, buttressed with ridges and festooned with hanging glaciers, was a far tougher job. On the peak experienced climbers had violent attacks of vomiting, and on the descent Tilman fell 80 feet...
...partners in a Yorkshire textile mill, Alfred Armistead, liberal Conservative, and Henry Hinch-liffe, conservative Liberal, are posed as two representative, conflicting types of Victorian capitalism. Their children are involved in the conflict that dissolves the partnership, are nevertheless drawn together in their common rebellion against their parents. Author Bentley makes this two-way conflict the most interesting part of her story, which otherwise runs so true to form it resembles the competent playing of a piece of music that everybody knows. Out of family conflicts, the War, Depression, the two families produce one unhappy intermarriage, one well-known liberal...