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Those who dwell in marble halls are not uniformly blessed. Last week in Boston Victor L. Chrisler of the National Bureau of Standards revealed that the nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. are homesick for the good hearing that they enjoyed in their little vestibule of a courtroom in the Capitol. In their vast new marble chamber, in their vast new marble building, the acoustics are so poor that when Mr. Justice Roberts at one end of the bench leans forward to ask a question, Mr. Justice Cardozo at the other end can hardly hear...
...alma mater. Harvard? Had he not once done settlement work under Jane Addams in Chicago? Had he not written a treatise on industrial relations for the Rockefeller Foundation? All were subjects dear to the President's heart. With such topics for preliminary talk it was not necessary to dwell on the Prime Minister's post-election statement that "the people of Canada are opposed to planning for scarcity by the restriction of production. . . ." That night the President of the U. S., who is a master at conciliating even his most critical callers, and the Prime Minister of Canada...
Today most learned Jews apparently prefer to dwell on the vagueness of biological racial distinctions and the fallacy of "Aryanism" rather than search for signs of a mental orientation that sets Jews of whatever nationality apart from non-Jews. But not Abraham Aron Roback, thoughtful and erudite Jewish psychology professor at Boston's Institute of Advertising, onetime instructor at Harvard. To the current issue of Character and Personality Dr. Roback contributed a report on characteristics of Jewish habits of thought and modes of expression...
...DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS-Alvah C. Bessie-Covici, Friede ($2.50). The story of a Midwestern family dominated by a neurotic mother whose sexual frustration wrecked the lives of her husband and children...
Federal law forbids the trapping, sale or serving of wild duck.* On the inaccessible islands and marshes of Maryland's and Virginia's Eastern Shore dwell several hundred furtive, treacherous, half-wild natives who make a business of ducklegging. Their traps are funnel-mouthed wire contrivances baited with corn, catching up to 40 duck at one haul. Wardens have lately captured three 8-ft., home-made cannon which fire 2 Ib. of shot, kill up to 300 duck at a blast. Trappers ship out between 200.000 and 400.000 duck per year under label of seafood, are said...