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...late Law Professor Algernon Sidney Biddle of the University of Pennsylvania, Francis Biddle, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, trained for the battle of the New Deal on the playing fields of Groton. Harvard College sent him to Harvard Law School which graduated him in 1911. To him fell the prized cachet of being chosen as the man in his class to serve Oliver Wendell Holmes for a year as that Supreme Court Justice's secretary. But Francis Biddle has not confined his activities since school days exclusively to the law. He has written a novel about Philadelphia (The Lanfear Pattern), book...
...Townsend Plan had not acquired the cachet of Big Names as did Technocracy in the sad autumn of 1932. No Frank Vanderlip had drunk wine with it. It lacked the White House prestige which Anna Eleanor Roosevelt last year bestowed on the somewhat similar plan of Florida's 71-year-old Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin whose book Prohibiting Poverty, of which Mrs. Roosevelt ordered six copies, advocated that all essential work be done free by Commons aged 18 to 26, who would thereafter engage at will in capitalistic luxury industries as public-supported Capitals* (TIME, Oct. 23). Best that...
...unparalleled turnover of 30,000 inmates a year, remarks that it harbors more drug cases (1,200 a year) than all Federal prisons combined,* more homosexuals (200) and alcoholics (1,500) than any other U. S. penal institution. Only untimely bit in Mr. Fishman's article is the cachet he gives Warden McCann for the small number of escapes from the prison. "Such an escape record," says Mr. Fishman, "could be achieved only by a warden dog-like in his devotion...
...material like any germ, and with cultures produce secondary cancers in guinea pigs, animals notoriously difficult to render cancerous. The National Institute of Health thinks so well of Drs. Glover and Engle's work that it let their last week's announcement bear the Institute's cachet...
...After a few years in Budapest Industrial Art School, he stopped doing things humbly. At 25 he was summoned from Paris to the summer palace of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to paint the Archbishop Gregorious. His portraits of the Archbishop, the Prince and his wife, gave his work the cachet it needed. Since then he has immortalized almost the entire Almanack de Gotha, visited every royal court except that of China. Like every brilliantly successful court portraitist, he has had to be a diplomat as well as an artist. The Countess Greffulh is almost unique among his subjects in that...