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...Social Security Act (TIME, June 5), U. S. doctors also turned their attention to old folks. Attention-turner was Problems of Ageing,* technical tome on what is technically called geriatrics, which contains the scholarly opinions of 25 experts on the medical and psychological problems of old age. First bang-up work on geriatrics ever published, the book contains an introduction by 79-year-old John Dewey, lengthy articles by such famous scientists as Physiologists Anton Julius Carlson of University of Chicago, Walter Bradford Cannon of Harvard, Nutritionist Clive Maine McCay of Cornell, Anthropologist Clark Wissler of Yale...
...Orchestra with Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 6 sides). By the Colorado-born composer (Rhumba Symphony, Lament for the Stolen) whose work the Philadelphia Orchestra has consistently given first hearings, and who last week, following the orchestra's recent troubles, took over his duties as its latest manager. The bang-up last movement of the concerto is based on two Mexican dance rhythms, the Juarezca and Malague...
Minnesota's New Republican Governor Harold Stassen last week presented himself in Washington as a young man worthy of note because: 1) he had just put a bang-up, middle-of-the-road reform program through his first Legislature, and 2) he cannot run for the Presidency next year. He is 32, will be nicely past the Constitutional minimum of 35 in 1944. Harold Stassen's first purpose in visiting Washington was to promote cooperation between his reorganized State Government and the Roosevelt Administration. His second was to tell G. 0. P. Chairman John Hamilton how to turn...
...successful battery practice at Dunster's expense, resulting in two touchdowns in the Coasters' 13-0 win. Jack Lucey, Adams captain, kicked the extra point. Shorman Maisel, husky Adams guard, set up the second touchdown when he broke through and intercepted a Funster pass. Johnny Eaton played a bang-up game at tackle...
...radio did nothing to minimize the European crisis, however, in the U. S. the networks did a bang-up job of bringing the throbbing reality of it to listeners. NBC, CBS, MBS constantly carried crisis news in spite of a magnetic storm which marred short-wave reception for three days and a hurricane which broke power and communication lines, flooded transmitters. The announcement of the Czech reply to the Chamberlain-Daladier ultimatum was read to CBS listeners by Maurice Hindus eleven minutes before any other U. S. agency got the news. NBC and CBS stayed on the air all night...