Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms, suggested equally shrewd Mr. Willkie, should be set by an independent committee, in view "of the recent newspaper reports of a diversity of opinion as to policy within the TVA." Mr. Willkie's suggestions for committeemen: President Clarence A. Dykstra of the University of Wisconsin, President Karl Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter...
...conductors. To Pittsburgh went pudgy, astringent Fritz Reiner who, since resigning from the leadership of the Cincinnati Symphony in 1931, has guest-conducted here and there and headed the orchestra department of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Kansas City signed its first long-term contract with U. S.-born Karl Krueger who, during the past five years, has been whipping its depression-born orchestra into a first-class organization...
...AGAINST HIMSELF-Karl A. Menninger-Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). Suggestive, simply-written study (485 pages) of the many forms of self-destruction that operate in human beings, from suicide to the "accidents" that mysteriously fulfill the victims' intentions. Chapters on deliberate failures, self-mutilation, are documented with quotations from Freud that show the freshness and power of Freud's observations, with less telling illustrations from Dr. Menninger's own practice...
...fumed in jail for four hours before her husband got her out. They started for Peiping with Robert Karl Reischauer, Princeton lecturer, but Reischauer decided Shanghai would be safer. Two weeks later he was killed by a bomb in the International Settlement (TIME...
Feeling that the knowledge of bats is scarce, the Society headed by the executive committee of Donald R. Griffin '38, Karl F. Guthe '39, Philip W. Morse '38, Douglas H. Robinson '39, and Ralph I. Smith '38, has taken up the bending of bats as a cooperate venture. As a result of their work they have discovered that bats in New England migrate to as much as the distance of 200 miles...