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With a blizzard of pamphlets, dodgers, press releases, charts, pictures and displays, the Republican National Committee lately set out to rouse the nation's ire against taxes, make President Roosevelt the butt of that resentment (TIME, Sept. 14). One of its brightest ideas about dramatizing "the Roosevelt New Deal Party's taxation raids on the family pocketbook'' involves the use of blackboards and butchers. The National Committee's blackboards, promised but not yet generally in use, have space for three columns of figures. The butcher chalks up his prices as follows...
Between January, when the seeds of ambition are sown, and November, when the political harvest is reaped, September is the season when books & pamphlets flower most profusely in the ripening campaign. Some of the brightest tares blossoming in this year's fields...
Polo's brightest season started last June when the U. S. beat England at Hurlingham. It continued at Berlin, where Argentina won the Olympic tournament, in which no U. S. team was entered. Last week, Polo moved to Long Island for the U. S. Open Championship. This year the Open has an extra significance: the winner will represent the U. S. against Argentina in the year's second major international series, the Cup of the Americas, starting at Meadow Brook Sept. 19. In last week's first-round matches, all played the same afternoon on three fields...
...lesser star explosions called novae are fairly common. About 40 have been detected since 1900. Nova Herculis, which blazed up in 1934, attracted much attention because it was only about 1,500 light-years from Earth (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934). At its peak one of the twelve brightest stars in the sky, it offered superb opportunities for spectroscopic examination. Such novae throw off tremendously hot shells of gas, then subside irregularly and gradually to something like their former faintness. On the other hand some astronomers believe that supernovae, which fade rapidly, become "neutron stars"-small, dead, dense lumps of matter...
Thirty-five-year-old Eugene Markley Landis, A.B., M.S., M.D., Ph.D., of Philadelphia is the brightest young U. S. doctor who came to the attention of the College of Physicians during the past year. Dr. Landis' specialty is measuring the flow of blood through the capillaries. To do that, he uses glass tubes one five-thousandth of an inch in diameter which he inserts into the tiny bores of capillaries. The manner in which capillary blood rises in those tubes has thrown a considerable light on how heart disease causes dropsy, how kidney diseases develop, how a bruised...