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Simultaneously FORTUNE gives a hand to the infant prodigy in which many of the war-wise lost faith last summer. It tells how the fastest expanding industry of all time increased its backlog to $3,200,000,000 in 1940 (see cut), up 3,900% in four years, and will have brought its personnel, 30,500 in 1938, up to 550,000 by Aug. 1- greater than last year's average in the steel or automobile industries. And if Detroit's assembly-line methods are barred to them, planemakers have a trick or two of their...
Last week Sculptor Jacob Epstein made news by exhibiting in Manhattan a statue that no one could possibly object to. This Epstein was an appealing, life-size bust of a child, arms outstretched, modeled after Epstein's infant granddaughter, Leda. It was to be put on sale for the benefit of British war relief...
These observations, with many others, appeared in Dr. Carlson's classic book, The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease (1916). On his theories other scientists worked out diets for infant feeding, gastric ulcers...
...Germany, every crop-haired infant Siegfried, every pig-tailed little Brünnhilde counts Richard Wagner one of Nazidom's special heroes. Composer Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and goddesses in his Ring of the Nibelungs; he and his wife Cosima were also openly antiSemitic, believed and spread the racial nonsense preached by Count Joseph Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Yet Wagner himself was perhaps what Nazis call non-Aryan. He may have been the son of a supposedly part-Jewish actor named Ludwig Geyer. Last week this old contention, long pishtushed by German Wagnerites...
...Police Actuary Carl Friedrich Wagner in Leipzig; there is no evidence that he was not there in the late summer of 1812, when Johanna Rosina Wagner conceived the child who was to be called Richard. New evidence:* in the early summer of 1813, Frau Wagner journeyed with her newborn infant smack through the middle of a Napoleonic war to visit Geyer, who was playing at a spa in Bohemia. She left six moppets-the youngest aged two-at home in Leipzig. Contrary to the custom of the times, Richard was not baptized until twelve weeks after his birth. His legal...