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When his apparatus is working right, Dr. Kreutzer claims that fish swim to their deaths as if bewitched. The Herr Doktor turns on the current; the fish point dutifully toward the electrode. When he makes the current sing its pied-piper song, the fish wiggle and waggle in time with the subtle pulses. Glassy-eyed and helpless, they swim toward the electrode which leads to the frying...
Properly timed, thinks Dr. Kreutzer, the singing current would even catch whales, forcing them to swim right up to the maw of a whale ship. When the whales arrived, he suggests, the current could be intensified, stunning them temporarily. Then the whalers or whale inspectors could measure each leviathan, noting its sex and its depth of blubber. Large, fat males could be hauled aboard. The young, the thin and the female could be set free with the crew's apologies...
...Brown had a try at banking in Detroit, returned to Dartmouth to teach history, got a Ph.D. in history from Columbia, and published a biography of a minor American Revolutionary figure (Joseph Hawley of Massachusetts). After a. spell as associate editor of the Times's monthly news review, Current History, Brown moved over to Lester Markel's Sunday department in 1936. He was assistant Sunday editor when he left, in 1945, to join TIME, where he has been editor of the Hemisphere, Canadian and Latin America sections...
Major subject on the Universalist agenda was the perennial plan for merger with the Unitarians, who were also feeling cramped by Christian creeds. In the current issue of the Unitarian Christian Register, 127 Unitarian ministers of New England endorsed a five-point statement of faith. Said the Rev. Dilworth Lupton of Waltham, Mass.: "Behind the statement is our conviction that religion resembles art; it is bigger than any of its manifestations. And the conviction, too, that our Unitarian churches should be fellowships where, as in art centers, people holding various theories could come together for common enrichment...
...stating that it is "frankly totalitarian," you ignore the fact that a large part of its backing comes from others than ex-Nazis. P.W.'s recently returned from the U.S.S.R., younger voters, and persons who wish neither a communist "People's Democracy" nor the current clumsy bureaucracy set up by the arch-conservative forces of the Socialist Party-People's Party coalition, swelled the total gained by the League...