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...Assistant Secretary of the Navy inherited none of the inventive genius of the Wizard of Menlo Park, but he did inherit his father's prodigious capacity for work. Since he graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1913, Son Charles has met the business problems of the numerous Edison enterprises as energetically as his famed father attacked technical problems in the laboratory. Frequently he could be found in his grey-walled office in West Orange for 17 hours at a stretch. He had his first opportunity to become acquainted with the U. S. Navy and his new chief during...
...soon as doctors pronounce a leper cured he will be freed. But only one out of 20 lepers may expect to be cured. Therefore, the other 19 had better make the best of confinement. The Government gives them vegetable gardens to tend, occupations to perform, diversions. Children do not inherit leprosy. But they may catch it by associating with their parents. Therefore, scientists have decided that lepers had better not marry...
...Newly famed Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti sounded the keynote when he cried ''We are not in the least afraid of ruins. It is we who built these palaces and cities here in Spain. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are going to inherit the earth. There is' not the slightest doubt about that...
...prototype, he is conscious of peculiar power. ... He recognizes the power of a single horn which he uses as a prow to pass under fences and barriers in his path, or as a forward thrusting bayonet in his attacks. And, to invert the beatitude, his ability to inherit the earth gives him the virtues of meekness. Consciousness of power makes him docile...
THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH? Morley Callaghan?Random House ($2.50). Long, slow novel, written in Morley Callaghan's familiar and muffled prose, of the relationship of father...