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Intended as it was to be a primer on the profession, Senator La Follette appended to the report a glossary of such technical terms as "fink" (strikebreaker), "noble" (commander of a strikebreaking squad), "missionary" (spreader of anti-union propaganda, especially among workers' wives), "hooker" (spies who tempt workers to become spies). But the report's dynamite was a list of some 2,500 U. S. companies found as clients of detective agencies. "The list, as a whole," the report observed, "reads like a bluebook of American industry...
Entertaining a whimsy that insects regard him as a sort of Puck, Bugman Teale proceeded to produce a primer of diminutive backyard life, free of entomological erudition. To be sure he recalls that nine out of ten living creatures are insects, that 6,500 new insect species are classified every year, that the total number of species may some day reach 10,000,000. More important, with sundry ruses and infinite patience he succeeded in photographing an insect-eye view of the world with which to illustrate lives of 18 wild beasts of the grassroots...
DEATH WITHOUT BATTLE - Ludwig Renn - Dodd, Mead ($2). Cinematic story, lent a Grimm's fairy-tale touch by primer characterizations and writing, of Communists and disillusioned Storm Troopers in Hitler Germany; by the author of War and After...
Replying to the query how she obtained information for her Primer for Freshmen printed last fall, she said modestly, "Oh, I know quite a few boys...
Although her Primer included considerable material on the inner workings of the University, she expressed complete ignorance of the Parietal ruling and its recent change. She could only say, rules never strengthen morals . . . I've found that one can always get around any rules...