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...Federal receipts of $5,294,000,000 were 23% larger than in fiscal 1936 and about the same amount larger than pre-Depression receipts. For the fifth year in succession they had grown and now, except for 1920 and 1921 when war taxes were still in force, are the largest in history. Previous all-time high: $6,695,000,000 in fiscal...
Things to remember about the Harvard University Library, whose 3,800,000 books and pamphlets make it the largest university collection in the world and the third biggest collection in the U. S.,* are that it is not named the Widener Library as most of its patrons think and that it is not run by a professional librarian. Last week the second of these peculiarities disappeared as Historian Robert Pierpont Blake announced that he was turning over his job as director to Keyes Metcalf, Chief of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library. Lean, reserved, thoroughly professional Librarian...
...least of whose virtues is that royalty rates are low. They will be performed by ambitious youngsters from little theatres, conscience-stricken celebrities temporarily on leave from the films, Broadway people with their futures before and behind them. New York and New England will as usual see the largest concentration of these plays and players (see map). A representative, but by no means comprehensive, summary of summer theatricals there and elsewhere...
...Smithsonian Institution's tireless Ales Hrdlicka recently caused an anthropological stir by discovering in the Aleutian Islands the skull of an Aleut which had a capacity of 2,005 cc. (TIME, Oct. 12). This was the largest on record in the Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under...
...Harlow Nininger has made Denver the meteorite capital of the U. S. Curator of meteorites at Colorado Museum of Natural History, professor of geology and meteoritics at University of Denver, he is the most persistent and energetic chaser of meteorites in the land, possessor of the world's largest private meteorite collection and probably the only scientist anywhere who spends all his working time hunting, studying, writing or talking about fragments of the cosmos from outer space. Last week some 800 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science assembled in Denver for their summer meeting...