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Artificial Musk. The male musk deer ranges Central Asia with an alluring odor. Perfumers cannot get enough of the natural musk for their trade, have got chemists to produce trinitro-t-butyl toluene which smells exactly like the real stuff. At Washington, Julian Werner Hill and Wallace Hume Carothers of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. described new ways of imitating musk...
...lineal descendant of Thrasymachus, of Philo in Hume's "Dialogues," and of Bertrand Russell in his most willfully tough-minded moods, Professor Becker works within the limitations of the naturalistic philosophy. This fact has led him into a fundamental error--or at least a fundamental omission. "Obviously the disciples of the Newtonian philosophy had not ceased to worship. . . having denatured God, they deified nature." "The eighteenth century Philosophers, like the medieval scholastics, held fast to a revealed body of knowledge. . ." "The ideas (Dderot's) are essentially Christian .!): for the worship of God, Diderot has substituted respect for posterity...
Edited by Ballyhoo's Norman Hume Anthony, Manhattan is a 16-page sheet with a bright wrapper instead of a cover. Striking feature of the first issue was a caricature of hog-jowled Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, modeled in clay by Alan Foster (see p. 16). Pages are devoted to digests of what Manhattan newspaper colyumists, theatre and film reviewers have written during the week. There is a detailed chart of theatres, restaurants, speakeasies, etc. indicating average prices of seats, food, drinks. Also there is a series of faithful sketches of speakeasy interiors. First two subjects: Editor...
...Jubilee. E. S. Martin was Life's first editor, and a part owner but was stricken with malaria and had to quit after the first six months. Three or four years later he resumed work as editorial writer, wrote regularly for the next 40 years until Editor Norman Hume Anthony, now of Ballyhoo, took the editorship of Life in 1929 for a brief tenure. Lloyd George had called E. S. Martin "the greatest editorial writer using the English language today"; Anthony threw out the Martin editorials because they were "lousy." The Martin editorials have been resumed since then...
...Hume: On Religion," Professor Eaton, Emerson...