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...moral grandeur, and on that almost Shakespearean humaneness which alone could delight the plainest of readers, he is obtuse as only a hyperintellectual can be. But on those intricate obscurities which put off most plain readers, and on Joyce as a technician and theorist, he has written the best guidebook and the most brilliant criticism to date...
...Nancy Wilson Ross, a native novelist and newspaperwoman, has pulled together some of the stories of these old-timers and woven them into a book of travels, essays and speculation about the Pacific Northwest. Much of what she writes is guidebook stuff-dutiful chapters on landscape, legends, and the myths of Paul Bunyan (who is by now one of the biggest bores in the whole bleak record of synthetic folklore). There is also a good map and 48 superb photographs. But Mrs. Ross's humor, sensitivity to the ways of a people whose pioneer forefathers are not all dead...
Ruth Mitchell had been busy writing a guidebook, studying native folklore in Albania when the Iralians seized it. She has since been living in Yugoslavia. One day last week she walked into a peasant hut on the outskirts of Belgrade and stood before 70-year-old Kosta Pechanatz, leader of the Chetniks. A veteran Komitadji, stationed on the Salonika Front during World War I, Kosta Pechanatz got a French aviator to drop him in Serbia, there made so much trouble for the Germans that it took three Army divisions to quiet things down...
...concentration will be largely shifted to his last two years of Law School, when Dean Landis feels sure he will be better equipped to handle the great and growing problems of economics and political science. His previous Law training will act first as a discipline, secondly as a guidebook to what is important in the forest of a liberal education...
...publications include the Mechanical Engineer's Guidebook, and a volume on airplane engines, published after his work during the war. One of the most important accomplishments at that time was to increase the celling of the Liberty engines, which was a great help to the Allies...