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Romains handles death in its purest, most terrible form: murder for murder's sake. Vorge Against Quinette is a first-class psychological thriller built on the characters of two men: the wretched bookbinder Quinette who committed his first murder in Volume I and has kept up a planned, gratuitous, sterile string of them backstage ever since; a newcomer. Claude Vorge, a writer, who represents those deliberately irrational strains in art and conduct called dadaism, nihilism, diabolism...
Newark, N. J.'s Station WOR hired him for a series of Sunday-night half-hours (Mutual network) of purest Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, with an orchestra conducted by WOR's Music Director Alfred Wallenstein. Never before, thought Director Wallenstein, had a single station presented a series of such high calibre...
Last week the sullen heralds of total war chattered in British skies, but many a British scientist, true to a long and stanch tradition, went calmly on with his researches in "pure" or fundamental science.* One of the purest of pure sciences is the approach to absolute zero, the nadir of cold. Absolute zero is the point at which all random motions of material particles, due to heat energy, are completely stilled. It is calculated at 273.13° below zero on the centigrade scale, and it can be written as simply 0°K., meaning zero on the Kelvin...
There are some Americans who want this country to go to war. But they have been afraid to say so, for fear of losing their standing. Instead, they have resorted to "educating" the American people to the real "issues" in Europe. They are hypocrites, and their writings are the purest and most vicious propaganda. In one mood, they hiss and spit their scorn of isolationism; in another they cower before it, paralyzed by a fear that keeps them from voicing their innermost feelings. But the President, as the leader of not only the United States, but the Western Hemisphere...
...Whistler and His Dog, drops useful hints on bodybuilding, the care of babies. Even without the Fields voice and the Fields mannerisms, the Fields pen shows a delicate sense of U. S. language. The book contains some mothy, mechanized, professional gagging, some second-speed samples of the purest, most incapturable Fields comedy, also the last printable word on the common-or-garden variety of U. S. marriage: "A man must look tidy, if for business reasons only...