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Died. Frederic Eugene Ives, Si, inventor (in 1886) of the half-tone engraving process that made possible the reproduction of photographs in newsprints; of chronic nephritis and myocarditis; in Philadelphia...
...hardening of the arteries or chronic contraction of the very fine blood vessels also causes back pressure on the heart, and usually extra pressure upon the straining mechanism of the kidneys...
...actual weight, however, The Old Bunch has less in common with its swollen sisters than with such half-starved gutter rats as James Farrell's Studs Lonigan. Realism of the cheapest dye, Author Levin's tale of Jews in Chicago is not so much a chronicle as chronic narrative. Gentile readers (goyische Lezer to Author Levin) may find themselves oppressed at times by the heavy, strident Jewishness of the book's atmosphere, but once under way most of them will be carried along by the momentum of the year's most naturalistic novel. After a hasty...
...standard of living has declined and there is chronic shortage of individual food items under Goring's Rearmament program of "Cannon instead of Butter." There are "Strength Through Joy" vacation treats and trips for workers on a grand scale which would have seemed incredible four years ago. In Germany the Protestants, Catholics and every other religious group except the Nazi mystics have been ruthlessly trampled by the State and the Jews have been legally reduced to a sub-citizen depressed class...
...LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER, Vol. II: 1848-1860-Ernest Newman-Knopf ($5). Masterly account of the composer's underestimated role in the Revolution of 1849, his chronic professional and domestic wrangling over musical problems, love affairs, debts, odd cures for complicated illnesses. Astute Critic Newman finds more than hearsay behind the story that Wagner's real father was a Jewish actor named Geyer, his mother the illegitimate child of Prince Constantin of Weimar...