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...anatomist, Edmond J. Farris, has developed such a remarkable chemical technique for preserving specimens that he is confident he could preserve indefinitely the body of any notable human being, at a cost of $20,000. (He deprecates the preservation of Enrico Caruso and Nikolai Lenin as "mere embalmings," suspects that the body of Caruso is secretly re-embalmed every year, says "Lenin is turning dark. He won't last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Benefactor of Science | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...forces closing in around a wild free man. When they turn the wind loose, however, Authors Nordhoff & Hall, Screenwriters Dudley Nichols & Oliver H. P. Garrett wash out their own story. They also wash all the trees, houses, boats, animals and people off the atoll, leaving nothing but the Robert Edmond Jonesish ruin of a church. The hurricane lasts for 20 minutes. It is a technically superb, terrifying combination of miniatures, real storm shots, tank shots, stage shots made with wind machines, all blended with bursts of inhuman music as savage as the piping of damnation. During the course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...replace the old annual meeting of volunteers small conferences will be held this year under the direction of Edmond LaB. Cherbonnier '39, it was announced by Sheldon Ware '38, undergraduate director. Arrangements have been made for each member to attend at least one session of the group before finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Competitions for Phillips Brooks House Start Tonight | 11/10/1937 | See Source »

...replace the old annual meeting of volunteers small conferences will be held this year under the direction of Edmond LaB. Cherbonnier '39, Ware announced. Arrangements will be made in order that each member will have attended at least one session of the group before June examinations. Interested speakers from varied spheres of charity work will feature each meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. Holds Competition for Social Service Committee-- Men Starting on Wednesday | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...career which to them long seemed bound in a different direction. Born in Manhattan, the only child of well-to-do Jewish parents, young Walter was privately schooled, taken regularly to Europe, sent to Harvard. There in a class (1910) that included John Reed, Heywood Broun, Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Lippmann worked so hard and well that he finished his course in three years, spent his fourth year as assistant to Philosopher George Santayana. William James thought him a bright boy. But it was a British social philosopher visiting at Harvard, Graham Wallas (author of The Great Society which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Elucidator | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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