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...Antonians began to follow Dumpy like children after the Pied Piper. Throughout the neighborhood, treasure hunters began pocking the ground like so many 'forty-niners. But Dumpy shook all pursuers, kept her source secret. By week's end she had brought in $18. Mrs. Stiles took some of the bills to a bank, where she was assured they were neither marked nor on wanted lists. This week all San Antonio was interested or involved in the hunt for Dumpy's roll...
Among scientists the theories of Sigmund Freud are still disputed, most vigorously by former. Freudians. But modern novelists have followed him like children after the Pied Piper. His influence has been the greatest single factor in determining the course of modern fiction, and future literary historians may well refer to Joyce and Mann as great Freudians in the way that Thackeray and George Eliot are now called great Victorians. Freud has exercised a greater literary influence than any other living writer. His 35 volumes are packed with literary allusions, with shrewd criticisms on poetry and fiction, with case histories that...
Last February the New York Legislature modified the insurance code again: Till 1943, by the O'Brien-Piper Bill, insurance companies can once again invest in low-cost housing. But the amount of rent they can charge this time is not specified. Metropolitan apartments will undoubtedly rent for more than $9 a room. Truly low-cost housing, with the price of building materials and building labor as high as it is now, will continue for a while to be built by the Government...
...Deacons downed Eliot 14-8, as Stubbs broke an 8 to 8 tie with some effective shelling in the closing moments. Winthrop pulled the Rabbits' ears with a 23 to 15 victory, with Peden and Stix showing the way, and Hartmann Schmidt starring for the losers. Led by Piper and Harold Stubbs, Lowell downed the Funster five...
...tested separately on the water and in the air. For weeks, coupled together like giant dragon flies, they taxied over the Medway, off Rochester, Kent, finally flew locked together above Short Bros, big plant. One afternoon last week they took off again, Ace Test Pilots John Parker and Harold Piper at the controls of Maia and Mercury, respectively. At 700 ft., flying 140 m.p.h. with conditions perfect, Chief Pilot Parker telephoned up to Pilot Piper: "Is everything all right?" Then: "One, two, three, go." Thousands of Sunday strollers cheered as the two seaplanes separated, took different courses. Said Pilot Parker...