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...Guard camp in typical northern Florida terrain -flat, sandy, scraggly with pine. Last week, six months ahead of schedule, it was a $15,000,000 naval air base, combed, brushed and parted with runways, hang ars, shops and barracks. The airborne Navy visitors looked on the Navy's handi work and found it good. There were a few speeches, the flag was run up, the watch set, the guard posted. An hour later it was another working day for the Navy's southeastern air station...
Buick has low, spread-eagled, "catwalk-cooling"' radiator grilles, a distinctive narrow nose. Down in price from $16 to $102, the four straight-eight series of Buicks now cost $996 to $2,074. Standard on all models this year is the handi-shift gear control; optional on some are sunshine tops, stream boards...
...Bern was expected to follow, but instead he telephoned to say that his headache was worse and he pre ferred to stay home. For several days the strongest evidence of suicide-motive was his personal physician's statement that the autopsy showed Paul Bern had suffered "a physical handi cap that would have prevented a happy marriage." At the Plaza Hotel in San Francisco last week there was a guest named Dorothy Millette. She had registered there early last May. Before that she had lived for 15 years at Manhattan's literary Hotel Algonquin where she was known...
...Drys, Consolidated, particularly the Anti-Saloon League and the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, were carefully watched to see if the President's broadening of the commission's scope would cause them to protest that their special handi work was not receiving its proper share of attention. But no protest came from the Drys, who viewed the commission as an agency that must inevitably recommend officially enforcement of a Reform which they effected unofficially. What they did mind was not having their hard-hitting prohibition enforcer, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, placed in charge. Nor was Mrs. Willebrandt particularly...
...first place, psychopathology needs the university. Up to the present time it has been the handi-work of private practitioners; men prey to the claims of the nervous world. It has now reached a stage when it is ready for companionship with academic psychology. Its concepts need to be exposed to the experimental method and to a rigorous criticism, and for that the men who carry on the work must be able to enjoy the kind of leisure and intellectual fellowship that it is the business of a university to provide. Psychopathology requires contact with all the various attitudes...