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Commissioner Larrick, in referring to criti cism of the book's major premise by various writers, failed to state that there is also very considerable dissatisfaction with conventional doctrines relating weight control to calorie control; he failed to state that there is indeed respectable scientific evidence supporting Dr. Taller's theory...
...This Time . . ." Most of all, Patter son plans for his return bout with Jo hansson. He does not intend to change his "peekaboo" style, with hands carried high in front of his face, which has been criti cized on the ground that it inhibits his punching power. Says he: "You'd be sur prised at the number of times I've felt their gloves hit my gloves and how grate ful I was that my gloves were there...
...Latin purists, some criti- cisms can be offered. Lines were spoken far too quickly in many cases, and some niceties of the language could not be appreciated. (Cries of "Tardius!" came from last night's audience, and the troupe will probably take the hint tonight.) In fact, perhaps the whole performance is keyed at slightly too fast a tempo; but that is far better than dragging...
...Arthur S. Link of Princeton's history department, Road to the White House is the first volume of a projected four-to eight-volume study. Coming from Princeton, where Woodrow Wilson is still a lively subject of conversation, it is painstaking and generally sympathetic, but now & then sharply criti-cal. It is also more academic and less anecdotal than Ray Stannard Baker's eight-volume Life & Letters. Wilson could be "cold, ruthless and stubborn," says Link, though firm and eloquent in defense of his beliefs. But "there was something about Woodrow Wilson that inevitably engendered controversy when...
...Night Piece" undoubtedly produces a more pleasing effect than any of the other bits of verse in the present number, "A Thought" is, on the other hand more to be praised for its form than for its thought or its choice of words. But all this is subjective criti- cism of the rankest sort and by a person of instructive likes and dislikes at that...