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...Austin, '39, undertakes to show that Richard Henry Lee, revolutionary father, was the forgotten begetter of the Bill of Rights. "Government and the Farmer" by Edwin F. Ringer is a competent and compact review of the problems of American agricultural policy, though not startling...
...Invasion, a story of Flanders during the German Wartime occupation (TIME, Jan. 25), Author van der Meersch presented a panoramic account of a people in the hands of their enemy. More compact an outline, more pastoral in treatment, his second has the same general setting but a different time and far narrower scope. In spite of its slightly cramped design, however, and chiefly by reason of its author's virtuosity, it is in all respects a highly interesting novel...
...film production, a venture that improved their backgammon game but not their bank accounts, the pair found time to write the book for Billy Rose's Jumbo. Hecht confessed once that the drama was not a suitable medium for him ("I've never been able to compact an idea into three acts"). Last July he referred to Hollywood fame as "a load of clams" at which "a dreaming of his dithyrambs, our gallant Thespis thumbs his nose," few days later signed to write for Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn at $260,000 annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon...
...Columbia's new studies in "History, Aesthetic and Technique of the Motion Pictures." Most searching of these was Columbia's, listed in the University catalog as "Fine Arts em1-em2," conducted by Film Librarians Abbott & Barry with Paul Rotha, British documentarian, and invited technicians. Also most compact, it started off last week with 38 selected students...
...Basenji is a smallish, chestnut-brown African dog, sturdy, compact and bony. Catlike, it slinks, catlike washes its face with its paws. The name means ''bush thing." Unique characteristic of the Basenji is that it does not bark; it utters only one noise, "GROOO!" Breeders be lieve its lineage can be traced back to the Twelfth Egyptian Dynasty. Since then countless generations of Africans, legend says, have succeeded in breeding out its bark, for the sake of silence not in the home but on the hunt...