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...railroads should be reassessed, presumably at lower figures. Such a reassessment would force Hague to increase assessments on other Jersey City properties, already at the highest level in the U.S. An automatic lowering of the debt limit would follow, might bring Jersey City's fancy finances into the lurid red; for Hague has borrowed heavily in anticipation of railroad-tax collections...
...books for almost every medical bibliophile in the U.S. His star customer was the late Neurologist Harvey Cushing, whose famed medical collection was recently installed in the new Yale Medical Library. Dr. Cushing longed for the first medical book ever published in the American colonies-a copy of a lurid best-seller on herbalism which had been written in England by one Nicholas Culpeper (Boston, 1708). But he never got his hands on one of these first editions...
...praise or blame is likely to go to one man: a slight, wiry, retired rear admiral of the Navy named Emory Scott Land. For 61-year-old Jerry Land is chairman of the Maritime Commission as well as co-holder of its tennis championship, casual dispenser of its most lurid and effective seagoing profanity. Except for Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who chairmaned the Commission for its first ten months and got it off to a handsome start, he has been its only boss...
...most of the books with non-interventionist implications were such as would discredit our point of view (The Wave of the Future). Though manifestly intended to provide Harvard students with a factual and interpretive basis for understanding the issues of today, the "war library" has eventually emerged with the lurid confessional of Jan Valtin prominent among its volumes. I consider this an insult to the intelligence of undergraduates...
Comic Strips. Many grownups have an idea that comic strips of the lurid adventure type are bad for children (TIME, Feb. 24). Dr. Lauretta Bender of New York, who has three children of her own, and Dr. Reginald Spencer Lourie declared that, on the contrary, these wild yarns are often good for unhappy children-"an inexpensive form of therapy." Dr. Bender told of a little girl whose father was a bootlegger, gambler and eventual suicide, whose mother was a paranoid cancer sufferer. Obsessed by the need of escape, the girl identified herself with one of the Hawk...