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TIME, Feb. 6, p. 9, col. 3: "Longshoreman Harry Bridges, whom patrioteers have tried to get deported. . . ." Please, what do you mean by patrioteer? And when you tell me, will you say if you mean that such are all who wish to see Harry Bridges deported? If you tell me this, tell me, too, what has happened to our feeling for the fine word patriot, that in this country, and, so far as I know, only in this country, people are ashamed of it and so often give it the sneering inflexion ? I am touchy...
...public opinion that the U. S. verges on war on the side of the democracies against the dictators does not mean that the U. S. wants to go to war. On the question of whether the U. S. should remain neutral in another European War, 69% of the Gallup questionees voted yes and 95% would not "go into another such war as 1917." The evidence therefore indicates that while practically nobody in the U. S. wants to fight, one man out of two thinks he will have to and one out of three has a good idea whom it will...
...laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., Dr. Little every year breeds 50,000 mice with hereditary cancers. But this does not mean that cancer is hereditary in humans, he says, for the mice may be inbred for 15 or 20 generations before cancer becomes part of their physiological heritage. "Life . . . superimposes so many varying circumstances and facts that any hereditary tendency so far detected may easily become swamped by other influences. . . . The risk of having cancer because one or both parents had it is not of practical importance...
...Philadelphia, the wrestlers meet the Pennsylvania team this afternoon. If comparative scores mean anything, the Crimson grapplers should return with a decisive victory under their belts...
...true. The things that the good swing musician tries to attain are relaxation and sincerity of expression. The idea of technique is secondary in jazz; that's why a good swing piano man doesn't like Art Tatum's work--a lot of octaves which when finished don't mean anything, don't convey any emotion, and could have been played twice as fast by Paderewski anyway. The true swing man tries to express sincerely, cleanly, and simply at all times the emotions and ideas which he feels. If you play fast, or loud, you stiffen up. The result...