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WHEN LAST I DIED-Gladys Mitchell -Knopf ($2). This marks the welcome reappearance of Mrs. Adela Bradley, elderly, erudite and sardonic British dabbler in deduction. From an old diary she gets her first clue to a trio of brutal slayings, holds an eerie investigation of a houseful of poltergeists, and finally scotches a cunning criminal. Slow-motion at times, but a treat for connoisseurs...
Died. Dr. Frederick Bertram Robin son, 58, ex-President of New York's City College; in Manhattan. Energetic organizer, dabbler in the arts, he was known as a campus diplomat before he ran afoul of liberal and radical students in the ideological '305, after that had a stormy time, was the subject of a mock trial, picketing, ouster movements, before he resigned...
Psychology A is the introductory course for concentrators. Unfortunately, it is planned mainly as a suitable course for the dabbler from other fields who feels he should take some in Psychology. This makes it not too satisfactory for concentrators. The first half, under Professor Boring, is rather disorganized in its coverage of man and his reactions to life; Allport's second half is much better...
Died. Poet Edwin Markham, 87, author of The Man with the Hoe; of pneumonia; in Staten Island, N. Y. Sheepherder, farmer, blacksmith, cowboy, schoolteacher and obscure dabbler in verse until he was 47, he Byroned into fame in 1899 when the San Francisco Examiner published his blank-verse masterpiece, inspired by Millet's painting, The Man with the Hoe. That one poem brought him an estimated $250,000 in 33 years...
...Prudden's argument that men in Group Four with three important outside activities will be "dabblers" seems ridiculous. Show us a man who earns his numerals by dabbling. Show us a dabbler on the Crimson or Red Book boards. Show us a Group Four dabbler in three important activities...