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Below medium height, with crinkly greying hair, stooped shoulders, prominent nose, drawly disarming voice, he writes with a sharpness and penetration that belie his mild appearance. As a political prophet he ranks low, for he alone of the major forecasters held out hope last year of a Brown Derby triumph. That, however, will be no handicap for him in his new post...
...KING WHO WAS A KING-H. G. Wells-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). To Herbert George Wells, as to many another social idealist, man's future means a great deal. But Wells is prophet as well as wisher. Years ago, so he claims, he took a joyride in an aeroplane and prophesied Lindbergh. "This book" he declares, with some slight inaccuracy, "is the same sort of thing. . . . Can form, story and music be brought together to present the conditions and issues of the abolition of war in a beautiful, vigorous and moving work of art, which will be well within...
...suspicious Kandahar Afghans plump Amanullah promised last fortnight to show the famed Khirkai Shereef (Prophet's Cloak), a religious relic of great potency kept in a locked box which only "a man fit to be King" can open. The holy cloak has rarely been seen for the last 200 years. Bearded Afghans assembled by thousands for the show...
...Congress and on the political stump. Whether the Treasury estimates are accurate or not is highly debatable. Secretary Mellon can quickly prove that Mr. McCoy's errors as a fiscal forecaster are negligible. At the Capitol, the Treasury's actuary can be and often is made out a worthless prophet. But there is no disputing this fact about Mr. McCoy: if and when his estimates err, it is on the cautious side?over for Deficit, under for Surplus. Perhaps his merry mien is due in some measure to his delight in always finding that the U. S. Government...
...renewal of the order to Latinize the Koran. The other, even more radical, was a slight Christianizing of Mohammedan ritual. Correspondents reported that this would include the wearing of shoes and slippers in the mosques instead of leaving them at the door as good Mohammedans have done since the prophet's day. Moreover, instead of kneeling on prayer rugs, the Kemalized Mohammedans may be seated in pews...