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...scripts for $5,000 a week. "I was always able to make large sums of money without giving money any thought," Hecht says. But an internal hunger (Hecht calls it "creative egoism") kept gnawing at him. He had a look at himself in A Guide for the Bedevilled, a handbook of Hechtian philosophy written...
Actually, the stuff is pretty easy to find. A just-published booklet (Handbook oj Uranium Minerals by Jack DeMent and H. C. Dake, Mineralogist Publishing Co., Portland, Ore., $1.50) makes it sound as if anyone could go prospecting...
...Handbook for the Future. Today in Russia Dostoevsky's works are officially permitted, but not encouraged for mass reading. This fact, coupled with the novel's own complexities, has caused A Raw Youth to be neglected in its motherland. Dostoevsky himself hoped that his cumbersome novel would have somewhat more survival value. In a kind of confession of failure he wrote at the end of it: "When the angry strife of the day has passed . . . then a future artist will discover beautiful forms for depicting past lawlessness and chaos! Then such [works as this] so long as they...
...probably the best bout of the match, Freshman captain Ray Rogers dropped a 6 to 1 decision to Pete Birdsall of the Big Green at the 175-pound class. Birdsall showed exceptional balance to ride Rogers who pulled nearly every hold in a wrestler's handbook...
Militarism and Harvard were recently thrown into the came wastebasket by that dyspeptic surveyor of the preparatory school, Porter Sargent '96, writing the yearly preface to his "Handbook of Private Schools." The latest of the last straws for the dean of Beacon Street was the simultaneous award last June of honorary Doctor of Laws degrees to four of the nation's top war commanders. When Generals MacArthur and Marshall return to pick up the two additional degrees promised them in their absence, Mr. Sargent's disgust will probably be complete. It has a right to be. Not only...