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...short end of a 3-0 count. To the home team's credit, however, it may be said that, led by A. W. Scott and F. K. Haskell, at halfback, numerous attacks were launched which ended only when the unfortunate projectile bounded off the very walls of the enemy citadel...
Almost unknown to the man in the street, Banker Reynolds has never been formally interviewed. He may have won his millions in the citadel of conservative Republicanism but he has never lost his standing as a good Democrat. To the nation's bankers Jackson Eli Reynolds is an awesome figure astride the highest peak in the mountain range of Morgan banks...
...went to Tibet again, this time to map some of the country's unexplored areas, to discover the source of the Indus, and to visit Tashi-lunpo, monastic citadel of the Tashi Lama, holiest man in Tibet since the flight (in 1904) of the Dalai Lama. All these things he accomplished. He interviewed the Tashi Lama himself, witnessed "devil-dances" in the sacred city, set the first European foot on the Transhimalayan range. But Traveler Hedin's graphic descriptions, no less graphic sketches, while they make good reading for armchair travelers, will lure few to follow...
Critics, the sacred geese whose panicky cackling rouses the citadel of plain men against the night attack of some threateningly new idea, are sometimes better than that. In Science, such men as J. W. N. Sullivan (TIME, Sept. 5, 1932; Oct. 23), in Art and Literature, Julius Meier-Graefe, are not so much sentries as interpreters. Bilingual, they can read the barbaric ensigns of these seeming foreigners and translate them into symbols that will not frighten the commonest sense. Interpreter Meier-Graefe's biography of crazy Painter van Gogh is known already to a few U. S. readers...
...staffs by the broadcasting companies, especially Columbia, which formed an ambitious subsidiary called Columbia News Service Inc. (TIME, Sept. 25). And last week the brewing quarrel between the Press and Radio flared up hotly when Columbia News Service made so bold as to try to invade a most sacred citadel of journalism -the press galleries of the National Senate and House of Representatives. The Capitol press gallery admission rules specify "persons whose chief attention is given to telegraphic correspondence for daily newspapers or newspaper associations. . . ." It was not Columbia's idea to broadcast directly the voices of Congressmen...