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When the Atlantic magazine celebrated its centennial, Editor Edward Augustus Weeks ascribed its longevity, in part, to periodic "refreshments in leadership." Said he: "Whenever the circulation began to sag, a younger editor was brought in." That was seven years ago, and in the interval, circulation did sag a bit; it...
Among the pleasures of playgoing in Europe is the privilege of buying a drink at a theater bar during the interval. In the U.S., theater patrons have to quench intermission thirst with a wax-enriched fruit drink, or else dash out to a neighborhood bar, there to fret about missing...
River Test. Kanayama plans to hold his next test in the Chitose River on Hokkaido Island. He will release educated baby trout, marked so that they can be recognized, in a stretch of water stocked with hungry and cannibalistic grown-up fish. Marked, unschooled babies will be released also. After...
Getting his case to the jury so that he collects even that much may take four years in New York City, three years in Boston, over 2½ years in Honolulu or Detroit. Courts in Los Angeles have held the delay to less than two years. In Miami the wait...
Speaker John McCormack hesitated, insisting that he had to consult the President first. That took three hours-and when he finally told Halleck that the deal had been approved, Halleck snapped: "You are too late. It cannot be done." During the interval, it seemed, one of Halleck's Rules...