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...hard. Simplicist Sherwood Anderson has been puzzling his head for years over the U. S. scene. In short stories, novels and autobiography he has struggled to focus what he sees into genuine art; occasionally he has succeeded. Lately he has taken to visiting factories, watching with his trou bled stare the unselfconscious machines, the unquestioning workers. Perhaps Women, a fragmentary notebook, is the result of these brooding visitations. Not the arguable art of economics but human beings, their daft ways, their queer needs, are what fascinate Sherwood Ander son. What Anderson thinks is wrong with...
Near Lawrenceburg, Tenn. an automobile containing Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton skidded, crashed into a telephone pole. The Governor's scalp was lacerated, he bled freely...
...first act of the altruistic-but-wise men and King Carol last week was to decree that hereafter 10% shall be the maximum interest payable by any rural debtor in Rumania. Heretofore village loan sharks have bled many a hard-pressed farmer to economic death by loans at 60% plus...
When Lillian Fisher, 15, of Joliet, Ill , developed infantile paralysis last week the Fisher physician telephoned long distance to Chicago's Durand Hospital for serum, heard Dr. George Howitt Weaver tell him to use parrot's blood instead. Immediately a parrot was bled. Five cubic centimetres were injected into Lillian Fisher. She improved. When Dr. Weaver heard about the injection he exclaimed: "The doctor just misunderstood me. I said parent's blood, not parrot's blood...
...Memorial Hall. In both new and old, he sees halfbaked meats and widow's weeds coldly furnishing the Examination table. It is not remarkable that he looks forward with a whitening eye to the dreary 1,252,800 seconds that remain before the first lecture of 1931. Memories are bled by time, even that one bloodstained memory of the time be filled three exultant Bluebooks with thin wavy lines...