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Also devoted to the plight of Europe's children is They Shall Inherit the Earth, by Czech Novelist and Playwright Otto Zoff (John Day; $3). It is written from the relief workers' point of view, with an enthusiastic foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; its greatest lack is the statistics that would give substance to its disconnected case histories and its well-intentioned but sketchy stories of distress among the 100,000,000 children of the Axis-occupied countries. Most shocking question it raises: When Europe's uprooted children grow up, what will they do to a world...
Young (38), straw-haired Lord Burghley should fit the office well. He is a scion of the brilliant house of Cecil, which has furnished Britain with some of its most distinguished statesmen and soldiers. His father is the Marquess of Exeter; from him some day Lord Burghley will inherit enormous estates in Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire. His wife is a sister of the Duchess of Gloucester. Lord Burghley looks like someone disguised as a handsome, sporting Englishman, but his is no masquerade...
Blushers, Cheer Up. No one knows exactly what causes high blood pressure; it is not, as many suppose, merely old age or overindulgence in red meat, salt, drinking or smoking. About 40% of hypertensives seem to inherit a tendency to it; even babies sometimes have it. Dr. Page blames excitable nervous systems for a great many cases (evidenced by the fact that anger or fear makes blood pressure jump), and he suspects that another source of the disease is a chemical called angiotonin, released by the kidneys when their blood supply goes wrong...
There are no "heart lines," "head lines" or "life lines" in her book. The form of the hand is her best clue to heredity, temperament, mentality and talents. The hands of children usually resemble those of one parent, sometimes a child will inherit one hand from each. An underdeveloped thyroid gland causes small, fat, broad hands, white and flabby, and a personality that is kindhearted, open-minded but unstable and lacking in concentration. The overdeveloped thyroid gives a long, bony hand, with thin bony fingers and an active, vivacious personality...
...fighting fronts are fighting for a principle, that free men may continue to inherit the earth and live in peace and prosperity with their neighbors. These men will not sacrifice that principle for personal safety. Should others? I sometimes wonder if America's legislators, its labor leaders, its industrialists, its occasional absentee defense workers, its sometimes selfishly pleasure-seeking civilians ever realize that . . . their maintenance of a solid fighting home front is as important a cog on the wheel of success as those facing the dive-bombers...