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...author who promises board and room to seven fictional child prodigies would seem to be diving into a container of water that is very small indeed. The Glass children, moreover, are brave, clean, reverent, and overwhelmingly lovable. Yet they never become the seven deadly siblings (at least they are never all deadly at the same time). The Irish strain makes them formidably talkative and occasionally fey. The Jewish strain lends family warmth as well as a talent for Talmudic brooding. The vaudeville heritage provides theatricality...
This is no Brave New World deliberately presented as a nightmare by a novelist, but the proposal outlined last week in all seriousness by Nobelist Hermann J. Muller to the American Institute of Biological Sciences. It is medical progress itself, said Indiana University's Geneticist Muller, that has made such steps not only desirable but necessary. In former days, he argued, the harsh processes of natural selection kept the human species on the upgrade, but now modern medicine keeps alive the bearers of defective genes and enables them to reproduce...
...threat that has been handed down to us, but a trust and a debt owed by us to those who did not resent giving up their own glorious futures. If die we must let us choose our manner of dying: with dignity and purpose, in company with brave men who have gone before...
...seven-day weeks, he is paid a starting major-league salary of $7,500, can work up to a top of about $18,000. But for all that, ex-ballplayers, would-be ballplayers who never got beyond the bush leagues, and fans with the hankering and the nerve to brave the insults and the perils of umpiring keep the majors well supplied with raw stock. "It's an unnatural life," says Umpire Augie Donatelli, who came out of the Pennsylvania coal country and took up umpiring after washing out of class D professional ball. "But have you ever been...
...angered by the Indians' tragic lot, Rondon established the Indian Protection Service, inspired his men to live up to the service's creed: "Die If You Must. But Never Kill." One of them, a Brazilian of German extraction named Harold Shult?, heroically applied this principle after a brave of the Xavante tribe, furious because Shultz had no gift for him, plunged a knife hilt-deep in Shultz's shoulder. Seriously wounded, Shultz made his way back to civilization, returned the following year, one arm hanging useless, to bestow a shiny new knife on his assailant. The shamed...