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...added that of Visiting Professor of Art at Dartmouth, a job he filled until three years ago. With Esthete Paul Rosenfeld, Bard Alfred Kreymborg and Critic Van Wyck Brooks he founded The American Caravan to publish experimental writing. On this board of editors Lewis Mumford was the golden mean. In a sense he has performed the same function among liberal and left-wing thinkers. Without the literary edge and personality of an Edmund Wilson (TIME, March 21) but also without the slightest trace of malice or partisanship, Lewis Mumford has displayed a unique capacity for sensing and understanding the advanced...
...name in 1924, when he wrote an article for the British Fortnightly Review. By a mistake the printer made it "Augur." The accidental pseudonym served just as well for Journalist Poliakoff's political forecasts, and Augur it has remained. In 14 years that by-line has come to mean as much as 22K inside a ring. Last week Vladimir Poliakoff chalked up the latest of a long series of coups: a clean scoop in the London Evening Standard on a draft of the coming Anglo-Italian treaty (see p. 22). Next morning's august London Times, which usually...
Last week, when the annual convention of the American College of Physicians met in Manhattan, some preliminary rumbles were heard, drowning out the purely scientific aspects of the gathering. Speaking obliquely, as doctors often do, the retiring president of the Physicians, Professor James Howard Means of Harvard, urged his adherents "to develop an enlightened opposition party within the democracy of the A.M.A." His adherents took this to mean that Dr. Means was in favor of ousting the elected heads of the A.M.A. But Dr. Means merely meant that he feared that those leaders may prevent his ideas from being discussed...
Since the amount of money in circulation has been falling from week to week for five months and since there was no sudden upsurge of business last week, most financial commentators at once concluded that this could mean but one thing, a resumption of hoarding. But Federal Reserve officials pooh-poohed the idea. According to them, one week's rise is insufficient evidence and may be only an accident. More likely explanation, said they, was the fact that sales last week were momentarily stimulated by the approach of Easter. For the week ending March 26 this year, which...
...matter, they brought a plan cooked up by chunky George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association. Labor's George Harrison suggested that the Government grant the railroads an outright subsidy sufficient to bring their revenues to the normal $800,000,000 a year. This might mean a Government outlay of as much as $465,000,000, would presumably be produced by RFC. John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads nodded in approval. So did his committee of presidents: Frederick Ely Williamson of the New York Central, Ernest Eden Norris of the Southern, Samuel Thomas Bledsoe...