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...four years before the birth of Christ, at the age of 70, after a reign of 35 years. Last week Dr. Minkin offered readers an old-fashioned biographical essay, filled with common-sense analyses and romantic speculations, that was calculated to reduce Herod's crimes to historical perspective, render him less a monster, more the victim of a monstrous set of circumstances. Although the portrait that emerges seems plausible, readers are likely to feel that the value of Herod lies less in the discussions of the central figure than in Dr. Minkin's learned account of the relations...
...what size that deficit will be." Earlier in the week rumors that British civil servants were planning to go on a stayin strike for more pay similar to those in France caused Chancellor Chamberlain to tell the House: "Civil servants who seek to indulge in such strike tactics render themselves liable to instant dismissal...
...executive power to modify the sentence imposed would be to render nugatory a law carefully considered by the Congress and designed to meet a national need...
...Banjoists, Mandolinists & Guitarists. Convention manager and official host was Chester William Gould, 36, a big, loud-voiced banjoist, organizer of the 50-piece Gould Mandolin Orchestra, which this week was to perform a Mexican Fantasia in costume, and of the champion Go-piece Gould Banjo Band, which was to render a new arrangement of Ravel's famed Bolero...
...first merit award-a handsome certificate and a cash prize. Someone once asked Astronomer Peltier why he did not join the staff of a big observatory. He replied that 1) he was satisfied to remain a freelance; 2) he had not been invited. The fact is that amateurs render valuable service by "sweeping the sky," a game for which professionals have no time. The professional usually has his research program mapped out for months ahead of time. He is thus not likely to come across any unexpected phenomenon. It was a British amateur named J. P. M. Prentice who discovered...