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Considered by many the most important advance in aerial transportation since the Wright biplane, the Douglas DC2 bears the name of a mild-mannered, retiring Californian named Donald Wills Douglas. Probably the strangest thing about Donald Douglas is that he seems always to have made money building airplanes. A member...
Mr. Russell Olsen's "Mr. Eliot and the Jesuits" alone of the essays in this number bears some slight trace of that preciousness so carefully cultivated in certain Harvard circles of the 1920's. He makes the neat point that Mr. Eliot's flight to the Church has resemblances with...
In accordance with our expectations last week, the Dow, Jones average receded from the 96 level where they met with such stubborn resistance, to the upper fringes of the 92 level. The failure of the bulls to show a scoring punch while in a strategic position, gave the bears temporary...
R. E. LEE (Vols. I & II)-Douglas Southall Freeman-Scribner ($7.50). Strange, even shocking as it may seem, no definitive life of the late great Robert Edward Lee has yet been written. When, 19 years ago, Publisher Scribner asked Author Freeman to write a biography of Lee, he expected it...
The nigger-in-the-woodpile, says Author Adams, first appeared in August 1619. The woodpile was a Dutch man-o'-war, which unloaded "twenty Negars" at the struggling English colony of Jamestown, Va. But Adams knows too much about history to singularize plural causes. Slavery, says he, was only...