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When a child delights in pulling girls' hair and pinching his neighbors, he may just be exhibiting some undeveloped "heman" tendencies and nothing more. But then again, such actions may need careful psychological treatment, which is the case with many youngsters who are brought to the attention of the Psycho-Educational Clinic at Harvard...
...than anyplace else, the whole tenor of change that war has brought to Harvard. A casual glance shows things very much the same. Ivy still covers the walls, trophies still line the halls, Monty still stands at the door, Mrs. Murray still strives to separate order and chaos, Mr. Heman still reigns supreme. The only real difference, as Monty keeps saying, is that between meals there is no one around to talk to and during meals there is a stampede rivaled only by downtown Boston of a St. Patrick's Day. And Mr. Heman is almost flustered at times...
California is the leading State in the production of English walnuts. Alabama and Mississippi produce pecans. But now South Dakota gets into the race and proceeds to show us what a real nut is. I quote from the March 24 issue of TIME: "Adolph Hitler is a German heman and the greatest warrior that this world ever produced since history was first written and to be candid I believe he is a holy man." This letter was written from Custer...
Divorced. Clark Gable, 38, all-round cinema heman; by his second wife, Maria ("Rhea") Langham Gable, 48, Texas oil heiress; in Las Vegas, Nev. Grounds: desertion. Said Cinemactress Carole Lombard, whose friendship with Gable was publicized in a fan-magazine article on "Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives" (TIME, Dec. 19): "When he gets a few days off and I am not busy perhaps we will sneak away and have the ceremony performed...
...very happy now. He would like to live there among the model trains. Of course, someday, when he graduates, Vag would like to be an engineer. Not the clever kind they turn out by the thousands at Tech, but one of the real heman kind of engineers on locomotives of trains throughout the world, who know daily the indescribable thrill of easing the throttle open, gradually nursing the Johnson bar into the center notch, and letting the mighty monster rock over the high iron. Until that lucky day, Vag is going to try to get work as an extra yardman...