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Zoological President. Few if any scientists in Britain are more concerned with Science-in-Society than Julian Sorell Huxley. This owl-eyed, quick-thinking, quick-talking biologist of 48 is the grandson of the 19th Century's brilliant Biologist-Essayist Thomas Henry Huxley, the brother of Novelist Aldous Huxley, the grandnephew of Matthew Arnold. His most recent endeavors have been a tour of industrial and academic laboratories in Britain (Science & Social Needs), an examination of Science in Russia (A Scientist Among the Soviets), two popularizations written with a collaborator (Simple Science and More Simple Science}, a detailed blow...
...Owl-silent in the committee chamber sat Hauptmann's prosecutor, New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz. When the Hallam report was released to news hawks, A.B.A.'s retiring President William Lynn Ransom, who with Newton Diehl Baker has been trying to convert the Press amicably, exploded: "Unauthorized, irregular, and improper...
Fortnight ago in the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans two oldtime jazzists, one with a trumpet, the other with a clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid virtuosity that the customers sat owl-eyed, raised a din with their applause when the pair had finished. Well they might. The trumpeter was Nick La Rocca. The clarinetist was Larry Shields. As members of the Original Dixieland Jazz...
Last week was U. S. Life Insurance Week, the third that that statistical indus-try has celebrated. Its slogan: "The sooner you plan your future, the better your future will be." Its symbol: a black owl with the words BE WISE emblazoned on its breast. About $200,000 was spent in advertising to make U. S. citizens worry about death or old age, and thousands of insurance men gathered in hundreds of groups to cheer for the law of probabilities, foundation of all insurance...
Helen Westley, with the magnificent eyes and nose of an owl, is Cap'n Andy's shrewish wife Parthy. Their daughter Magnolia, whose story is the sad old one of the girl married to a wastrel and abandoned, is Irene Dunne who, in black face and kinky wig, sings Gallivantin' Aroun'. Allan Jones, despite a good voice, makes Magnolia's Gaylord Ravenal into a handsome nonentity. Familiar to many a Show Boater will be Hattie McDaniel, an amiable and enormous Negro who helps Robeson with a rollicking song called Ah Still Suits...