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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Love" and other local color books we get a good picture of that eccentric zealot, the assistant managerial or plain managerial candidate. He is content, especially if he is a kudos-seeking Freshman, to forego his "inner check" and become perhaps even weird in his sense of the power and the glory of the H.A.A. So the antics of one of these flunkies in trying to bar Mr. Bingham from penetrating the Soldiers Field barricade to watch his own Freshman football team surprises us not. But too much discipline is a dangerous thing...
...Golden Harvest," this week's feature at the Metropolitan, is a mild bit of adventure apparently inspired by the time-honored farm problem. The producers give taint intimations of attempting an epic but, being unable to solve the problem of surplus wheat any better than a Farm Beard, they content themselves with merigages and government aid for the farmers...
KINGDOM COMING-Roark Bradford- Harper ($2.50). Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (from which Marc Connelly shaped his 1930 Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures) effectively pigeonholed Roark Bradford as a writer of humorous Negro dialog. But Author Bradford, not content with his niche, has made manful attempts to emerge. This Side of Jordan, a serious novel, was a far cry from Ol' Man Adam; most readers found it sordid and sinister. John Henry was a little consciously folk-tale-ish. But now, in Kingdom Coming, Author Bradford has turned the trick: neatly sidestepping the hoodoo...
Again bloodhounds were called out. Yelping mournfully, they led perspiring Czech police to the cabin of a notorious poacher, Max Epker, member of a Nazi trade union. When they got there the cabin was bare. Czech authorities had to content themselves with arresting eleven assorted Nazis and, like Austria, like Switzerland, doubling their frontier guards...
...science's probing into the fundamental secretae of the universe-of light, electricity, gravity, matter-that the language of physicists is becoming metaphysical. Efforts to fit new discoveries to demonstrable theory, or to perform the converse, simply pile paradox on paradox. While U. S. probers have been mostly content to spin new riddles by unearthing new facts in their laboratories, European physicists have tried more & more of late, by sheer sweat of mind, to coordinate, to reconcile, to reduce the areas of conflict among observed phenomena. Last week U. S. readers of the British scientific journal Nature were apprised...