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...Karl R. Popper, professor of Logic and Scientific Method at the University of London, will give the first of the 1949-50 William James Lectures in Philosophy tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in Emerson D. The lecture will consider the question "Is Science Still Interesting?", and is the first of a series of talks to be given at weekly intervals entitled "The Study of Nature and of Society...
Since the Louisville Orchestra decided two years ago to stop hiring expensive soloists and use its cash to commission original compositions instead (TIME, Dec. 20, 1948), Louisville audiences have had many an ear-popping musical surprise. Last week they got an eye-popper as well: Modernist Martha Graham in a brand-new 25-minute dance to the accompaniment of the 50-piece orchestra...
...Wyoming. Play this and you won't have to hide behind the popcorn popper as they...
...correspondents in Berlin, the invitation was an eye-popper. The Soviet-dominated Bulgarian government, which has shown little liking for U.S. newsmen, politely invited them to cover Premier Georgi Dimitrov's big Fatherland Front Congress in Sofia. The terms sounded too good to be true: there would be no censorship; the correspondents could go where they pleased, stay as long as they liked, and English-speaking Sofia newsmen would serve as interpreters...
Readers with even a 20-watt memory ought to recognize this old eye-popper. Some may recall it as a favorite parlor puzzle a decade or two ago. The late Alexander Woollcott published a breathless version in which the missing person is an elderly woman; in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' The End of Her Honeymoon (1914) it is a young husband. All are variations on the same theme: a victim vanishes, leaving no sign of his existence; in feverish haste his hotel room is refurnished, repapered or walled off. The hotelkeeper (sometimes it is the police) has reason to dispose...