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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most encouraging is Mr. Poor, who, with "In Defense of Democracy," makes a stirring though somewhat verbose appeal for liberalism against both Fascism and Communism. Mr. De Veaux Smith, with his playlet "Good-Luck," endeavours to meet the challenge of unemployment in a two-room flat on Third Avenue, where Mary Young and her son, Rob, eke out their days, Rob having had no work for thirteen months. To them, bearing a Thanksgiving day basket, comes a woman of wealth who turns out to have been a childhood playmate of Mary Young; Mr. Smith avoids the most obvious inducements...
Month ago Yugoslavian editors flayed Hollywood for misrepresenting the Balkans' trains de luxe in the cinema Orient Express, scare-headed AMERICAN FILM LIES ABOUT YUGOSLAVIA (TIME, April 1). Last week the Yugoslavian Government suppressed as long as possible a secret which finally leaked out: for the first time any Yugoslav could remember since the War, the mail car of the Orient Express had been robbed...
...Newton, a train killed Bartholomew C. Ryan on his way home from the race. On Commonwealth Avenue, one Edward Redman collapsed from a heart attack. Loudest cheers from spectators at what has been called the crudest sporting spectacle in the U. S. were heard for 46-year-old Clarence De Mar, Keene (N. H.) schoolteacher, who first won the race in 1911 and six times thereafter and who still regularly totters out to his annual day of notoriety. Last week, Runner De Mar finished 18th in a field...
...Henri Bergson's sense of motion and change led to the élan vital theory which presents a mysterious, inward, upsurging force as the driving influence of evolution. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck propagated a theory that acquired characteristics could be inherited. Most modern students of evolution take little stock in either Bergsonism or Lamarckism. Yet last week Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, presented a view which seemed to flirt with both. Whereas primitive organisms are bundles of inherited reaction patterns and higher animals are resultants of heredity plus environment, Dr. Hrdlicka believes...
...best for that period since 1930. President Cornish declared that he could easily raise prices but that he preferred not to "squeeze" consumers. Profits from European operations were currently better than from those in the U. S. C. In a brief preliminary report, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. announced that March quarter profits amounted to about 85? per share of common stock as against 90? in the same period of last year...