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ANOTHER CAESAR-Alfred Neumann-Knopf...
...months Mrs. Julie Neumann, director of Brooklyn's Ethical Culture School, had been bursting with a great secret. Last fortnight when she read of "K," the prodigy with an I. Q. of 196 discovered by the College of the City of New York (TIME, Dec. 3), she could contain herself no longer, revealed that one of her pupils, "X," had been graded 230. But just as jealous as Mrs. Neumann was Mrs. Winifred Travis, chairman of the Parents' Association of Public School 217. X, she declared, had been at the Ethical Culture School only three months, was really...
...MIRROR or POOLS-Alfred Neumann-Knopf...
Publishers always have some reason for publishing what they do. Authors' reasons for writing what they write are vaguer. In a letter to Publisher Knopf, Author Neumann defiantly admits why he wrote this historical-romantic farce: "Because I wanted to fight against the general and my personal depression, and because in hard and bad times there is always one tragicomic feeling in place-gallows humor." Seekers after belly-laughs need not apply! Author Neumann's humor is fun but it is gruesome...
...question interesting the Bavarian church is: is it true, as claimed, that Therese Neumann has taken no substantial food since 1926. and nothing but a daily Holy Communion wafer since 1927? Only once since then has Fraulein Neumann submitted to examination, and then by four nuns and a physician who it is admitted may well have been prejudiced in her favor. It became known last fortnight that the Bavarian Bishops' Conference had asked Therese Neumann's father to permit an examination for a month or six weeks. The bishops were interested in the fast alone...