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Died. Max Radin, 70, Polish-born legal scholar, longtime (1919-48) teacher of law at the University of California; in Oakland. An outspoken Brandeisian liberal, good friend of New Deal Legalists Felix Frankfurter and Thurman Arnold, Radin once said: "The law is not a bag of tricks that any fool can learn and any rascal can apply, but an attempt at coordinating the methods by which some social mechanism can enforce right dealing between...
...months can an investor in the higher income brackets take advantage of the long-term capital gains tax, thus pay only 25% on his profits instead of an income tax up to 82%. None of these restrictions and safeguards means that investors can not lose. In Wall Street, a fool can still be separated from his money as fast as anywhere else. But to date, the bull has been a well-behaved animal. How long will he remain...
...blind fool!" cried Renfroe. "That throw hit me!" Ignoring the 6-ft. player's complaint, Umpire Montes, who speaks no English, stoutly repeated "Fuera." Thereupon Renfroe unleashed a right to his jaw and Umpire Montes was completely fuera...
Born in Rochester in 1912, "Dick" Harari had "a routine academic training" there and later a modern schooling under Fernand Léger and Marcel Gromaire in Paris. Back in the U.S. he did both realistic landscapes and abstract murals for the WPA, exhibited fool-the-eye still lifes at the Museum of Modern Art and sold an abstraction to the Whitney Museum before he discovered his flair for commercial work...
...story is "As Who Likes It?," a moderately funny parody on Shakespeare's comedy. Its humor comes from a take-off on the supposedly unconvincing disguises of Rosalind in "As You Like It"; in this case, the writer gets some humor out of having both lovers in disguises that fool nobody in the east but themselves. But the plot here too lacks effort and the promise of a reasonably funny climax is never realized. The parody on Kittredge and Coleridge footnotes comes off very well indeed...