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...Rumania corruption has always been more or less chronic, but King Carol in the past ten years has put up a show of developing from a Royal Scapegrace, first class, into a dictator, second class. But last week many of his subjects saw him as an archtraitor, or as an arch-fool who relied upon the guarantee of Great Britain to save Rumania...
...King Mihai it must have appeared as if the confused and scandalous state of affairs long chronic inside the Rumanian Royal Family had now spread to the kingdom at large in a more appalling form. When he was in his cradle his father was two-timing with the now forgotten Mme. Zizi Lambrino. When he was a lad of five Mihai was made King under a Regency, but three years later, in 1930, Scapegrace Carol flew back from exile and with Army backing took the throne from his son. Jesuitical historians last week could recall nobody else since the world...
...exact causes of Bernard DeVoto's chronic exasperation eluded many people. Critic DeVoto claimed that it was his passion for straight thinking. Said he: "I have not objected to the use of abstractions but only to the use of abstractions in the illusion that they are bricks, girders, and tie bars. I have not objected to the use of theories but only to their use in ways that produce what are called higher truths. I have not objected to simplifications but only to the use of simplifications in order to satisfy the lust for oneness by denying facts, experience...
...Long Island Railroad, owned by the Pennsylvania, carries more passengers per year than any railroad in the U. S. But more than half of them are commuters, and the Long Island, competing with 5? subways, must haul them cheaply. To the commuters' chronic irritation, it does. Favorite Long Island commuter's sport is thinking up ways to pique, gyp and otherwise get back at the Long Island Railroad...
...moved like a stone-crusher, reducing the boulders of thought to a flow of gravel that anyone could build a mental road with." Evolution was his religion. There was Francis Parkman, who had been over the Oregon Trail. Life in the West had destroyed his digestion and given him chronic insomnia. Arthritis crippled him. A nervous disorder "engulfed his mind." He had published The Conspiracy of Pontiac. It was 14 years before he could publish the next volume of his "history of the American forest...