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This year Girard's able President Herrick reaches 70. Last week Girard named as his successor Dr. Merle Middleton Odgers, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's College of Liberal Arts for Women. Lank, sharp-faced, 35, Merle Odgers is married, lives with his wife and daughter in...
Having been convulsed by the flight of Hero Charles Augustus Lindbergh " family from the Herods of U. S. lawlessness and yellow journalism, U. S. editors, who spent last fortnight proclaiming their country's inferiority to Great Britain in manners and morals (TIME. Jan. 6), maintained almost unanimous silence last...
"Newspapers more than kidnappers," thundered the self-righteous Christian Science Monitor, "have exiled the Lindberghs. . . . Unless one has been besieged in his home, has had his life endangered on scores of landing fields, has had every move even on his wedding trip watched by news spies, has been forced to...
Dead or alive, the vast majority of criminals are identified by facial appearance and fingerprints. But the Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery has been shown cases where tinkering with bones and flesh has completely altered facial appearance. And smart wrongdoers like the late John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter may...
Witchcraft. The author starts on the premise that all savages are metaphysicians. At the root of their outlook is the fact that they have almost no knowledge of natural laws and almost no conception of cause & effect. They do not know why people get sick and die, why crops fail...