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Shut away in a Swiss sanatorium is the man the world once knew as the greatest of dancers. For months at a time he speaks no word. He still hears the echo of War guns. His dead, dumb eyes see soldiers dying around him. Sixteen years have passed since Vaslav Nijinsky danced in the U. S. But this winter the re-enact- ment of many of Nijinsky's great roles by the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe has aroused fresh talk of his genius (TIME, Jan. i). Next week will be published the story of Nijinsky's life, written...
Thus last week, recuperating in a Manhattan sanatorium from a siege of shingles, did Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot announce his intention of seeking in the primaries next May the Republican nomination he failed to get in 1914 and 1926. An oldtime Progressive with New Deal sympathies, Governor Pinchot if defeated by Senator Reed may run next November as an independent...
...women only are courses in the Y. W. C. A. building. There they may learn how to make quilts, hooked rugs and lamp shades from Miss Clarice Smith, a sanatorium nurse, in a course in Home Handicraft ("Beautify the home-nest"). Mrs. Andrew Wood, housewife, shares her culinary skill in New Wrinkles in Cooking. Mrs. H. S. Patton, wife of a Michigan State College professor, teaches the school's second most popular course, Personality Plus. In it 158 women are learning how to meet strangers, use cosmetics, improve their conversational resources...
...eugenic court" of which 1,700 are set up throughout Germany by the decree. Each court consists of two doctors and a judge. If they decide for sterilization the prisoner can: (1) submit; prove that he has sufficient funds to spend the rest of his life in a sanatorium and proceed to do so; 3) appeal to one of 27 Supreme Eugenic Courts." From a decision by any of these Supreme Courts there will be no appeal. Germans were warned that reluctant "defectives" will be sterilized by force...
...visit him. Otherwise, every patient must go to his neighborhood dispensary where he is given a thorough medical inspection. If he needs special attention, he is sent to a central polyclinic or to a general or special hospital. Astonishing is ''the vast provision of convalescent home and sanatorium accommodation, probably larger in proportion to population than in any other civilized country." Health officials are making especially strenuous efforts to "liquidate"' tuberculosis and venereal disease. In all regions are special institutions for the treatment and cure of both...