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...first stirrings of Jocism began in Belgium 20 years ago when a young priest (now a canon), Rev. Joseph Cardijn, formed a small Catholic workers' group. Jocism grew much like other isms - in cells (always with priests as nuclei) from which zealous apostles, called "militants," proselytized. Today, there are 90,000 Jocists in Belgium, 100,000 in France, a total of 500,000 in Europe, of whom one-sixth are militants. Jocism recruits mem bers at 14, asks their resignations when, they marry or reach 25. Like all militant organizations, from the Jesuits to the Comintern, the Jocists...
...anti-New Deal crusade called the Women's Rebellion, asked (unsuccessfully) Attorney General David T. Wilentz* of New Jersey to enforce against WPA workers an old New Jersey statute (ten other States have similar laws) denying to paupers the right to vote, President Roosevelt last week grew highly sarcastic in press conference. The "ladies' proposal," he snorted, was about as democratic as it would be to limit voters to male holders of B.A. degrees. While he was on the subject he went on also to denounce poll taxes as a relic of the Revolutionary era. (He recently endorsed...
When chubby little Norbert Wiener was 14, he graduated from Tufts College. Reporters hailed him, and parents of ordinary children predicted that he would be a flash in the pan. When Norbert was 18, he emerged from Harvard with a Ph.D. and an academic halo which grew brighter as he studied at Göttingen, Cambridge, Columbia. Today Norbert Wiener, at the age of 43, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ranks as one of the topflight mathematicians in the U. S. A familiar figure on the Tech campus, with...
Born of the boom and orphaned in 1929, network radio grew up lustily through the lean decade without ever having to go to a foundling home. In only one year, 1933, did it fail to pile up gross revenues to top all previous years. In 1934, gross incomes exceeded 1933's by 35.4%, 1932's by 9%. Radio's 1933 depression was not only brief, it was also noteworthy for being tardy, for other industries were near bottom as early as 1932. So network-sales experts have derived from that experience their characteristically optimistic axiom that...
...bone (at the side of the skull), pushed the upper end of the jaw forward with a small steel bar, and wedged a block of cartilage, which he had cut from the ribs, in front of the ear. The block served as an extension of the jaw bone, soon grew firm and strong, advanced the lower jaw four-fifths of an inch (see cut). The new position of the jaw naturally changed the bite of the patient, but it did not take him long to get used to it. "There was very little post-operative reaction or discomfort," said...