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Halfway between the unalarming situation at Harvard and the lurid dilemmas painted in magazines and newspapers lies the actual state of venereal disease in this country. Syphilis, by its hereditary as well as its contagious nature, presents a problem that must be faced, and one which the Bulwinkle Bill would go far toward solving. But in the meantime another problem, more difficult to solve, is making itself apparent. For syphilis is rapidly being outranked as the nation's major social disease by the morbid, evil-minded, and sadistic trend of the public press, which can have no good effect...
...three weeks members of the Senate Public Lands Committee have been busily investigating Franklin Roosevelt's nomination of Ebert K. Burlew as First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Turned up in the process have been lurid stories of "secret police," embezzlement, telephone-tapping (TIME, Jan. 31). But though they kept at work just as busily last week, they turned up only one fact that was even faintly lurid: Harold Ickes has three expensive Government Packards (one sedan, two limousines...
...closest approach "Object Reinmuth" sped within 400,000 miles of Earth, which is less than twice the distance of the moon. Collision with one of these small planets or asteroids which lope around the solar system is a perennial theme with lurid fictionists, but mathematical chances against the occurrence are extremely high because of the great distances o space. If a body the size of ''Object Reinmuth" struck this globe it would not only annihilate everything at the site of impact but cause a tremendous earthquake and fires which would destroy life and property hundreds of miles away...
Meanwhile "Germans" in the Republic of Czechoslovakia were being egged on by the official Berlin press to demand "autonomy." There were even lurid rumors in Prague that Nazis were scheming the assassination of Czechoslovak President Dr. Eduard Benes. He, famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," cracked out activity in Czechoslovakia by prohibiting for the time being political meetings of any party in the republic...
Both Negro Author Turpin and Negro Author Hurston paint their racial pictures, with little shading, in glistening blacks and lurid tans. But to white readers who object to their violent brushwork they might truthfully reply: Negro life is violent. Author Turpin's story traces the fortunes of a Negro family from its uprooting in the Civil War to its rootless present. Martha, daughter of a plantation slave, died too soon to prevent her daughter from growing up in a bawdy house. Her granddaughter, starting off as a respectable farmer's wife, ended up on the Harlem stage, mothered...