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Enemies Preferred. Poet Thomas goes to work. Dr. Knox (to allow the script wider latitude) becomes Dr. Rock. The reader meets him first on a morning walk, wielding "his stick like a prophet's staff . . . the wide, sensual mouth tightened into its own denial." He is a sharp-tongued, arrogant genius, always at odds with his colleagues, the newspapers, society in general. His creed on the lecture stand: "Let no scruples stand in the way of the progress of medical science." His personal credo: "I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company, and their...
France's Architect Le Corbusier, the prophet of vertical living who thinks that even Manhattan skyscrapers are too small, came in for some criticism last week in London's Economist. His familiar prescription for overflow populations from ever-growing cities is the super apartment house, a kind of human hive (he has just finished a 20-floor prototype at Marseille, placing 1,500 people on a 450-by-66-ft. plot). The alternative, says the Economist, is the sprawling suburb, "the village green multiplied by unplanned expansion" that all too easily turns into an "amorphous and soulless mess...
...Significance. Father Divine had graciously prepared a suite at the Divine Tracy for his guest, complete-with a well-stocked kitchen, but the Prophet, restive perhaps in the throes of so much hospitality and second billing, preferred to take up the reservation he had already made at the Bellevue-Stratford...
...diamond bracelet containing 812 diamonds, he announced that before the end of the 20th century, "God is going to stop death." Across the room his Philadelphia sponsor, Politico Hobson R. Reynolds, who owns a cemetery and has an interest in a family undertaking business, sat fascinated. "Yes," the Prophet went on, "I aim to put undertakers, gravediggers and casket factories out of business...
...reporter asked if his meeting with Father Divine held any significance in regard to future collaboration between them. Prophet Jones pondered. "There is a significance," he replied at last. "But I don't know whether God will let me disclose...