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...alert military ear, the Communist sweep through China carried an ominous and familiar rumble. Only seven years ago, in Manila, he had seen the gathering storm of Japanese conquest. He appealed for reinforcements which could not be supplied, hopelessly watched the envelopment of the Philippines. Could Japan become a latter-day Bataan...
...bedrock to the brilliant flights of the Emersonian era, and towards the final settling in the dreary marshes of the Mayor Curley epoch. The book ends on "the late George Apley's" symptomatic, harassed query about "a certain doctor named Sigmund Freud," who seemed to proper Bostonians a latter-day Emblem of Hell...
Touch & Go. Grace Fernald is one of the pioneers of a latter-day science called remedial reading. Her "kinesthetic method" works on the theory that reading difficulties occur most frequently in people who lack the ability to summon up a mental picture of the way a word looks. She finds that women have more visual ability than men, and that word blindness is 60 times more common among...
Killed. Earl Carroll, 55, gaunt, gaudy Broadway writer-producer (So Long Letty, White Cargo, Vanities), latter-day Hollywood nightclub owner; in an airplane crash; near Mt. Carmel, Pa. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Carroll got his start as a lyricist for the late Enrico Caruso, went on to produce 15 editions of his Vanities, two Sketch Books. He declared bankruptcy in 1936, two years later opened his colossal nightclub...
Died. Harry Twyford Peters, 66, coal merchant, latter-day popularizer of Currier & Ives, owner of the world's largest (5,000) collection of their prints; after long illness; in Manhattan. Collector Peters, also a fancier of horses & hounds, was Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's famed Meadow Brook Club and U.S. dean of M.F.H.s when he retired...