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...Finley Peter ("Mr. Dooley") Dunne and Mark Twain, bull-roarers like H. L. Mencken, splenetic idealists like Sinclair Lewis, ironic fantasists like James Branch Cabell and Robert Nathan. But last week critics hitched up their chairs, clapped on their best glasses and took a good hard look at Thomas Sigismund Stribling's latest novel, Sound Wagon. Before reading it, few would have admitted that Author Stribling might be capable of urbanity, let alone sustained satire. After reading it, many might have allowed that here at last was a U. S. satirical mirror with a sufficiently high polish...
...apart from rival "pulps" because its Assistant Editor used to be Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis; because it was once entirely illustrated by Rockwell Kent; because one of its most ardent readers was Roosevelt I; because it was the first national magazine to print the works of Pulitzer Prizewinner Thomas Sigismund Stribling. Last week Adventure celebrated its first quarter-century by publishing a special anniversary issue of 176 pages...
Result: New York's Commissioner of Hospitals Sigismund Schulz Goldwater revealed another reason why internes should be paid some stipend. Said Dr. Goldwater: "Internes are exposed to continual temptation to accept gifts, and what not, from patients. It is this temptation to accept gifts from patients that we want to eliminate by paying them $15 a month." Therefore Dr. Goldwater recommended that next year New York City pay its hospital internes $3.46 a week...
...midwives practicing in New York City last year took care of 5,000 confinements, earning an average of $40 a case. They thus deprived licensed doctors, who average $25 a delivery, of work and money. Last week Dr. Sigismund Schulz Goldwater, Commissioner of Hospitals, set about remedying that situation by ordering the Bellevue School for Midwives closed. That school was founded in 1911 to put midwifery on a scientific basis, has trained 731 midwives, has 21 in its present training class...
...head. She sounded A. The other players took the pitch. Conductor Brico appeared in a severe black jacket, bobbed her bushy head and the concert was off. The strings played soundly and vigorously through Beethoven's Egmont Overture, his Second Symphony, a Chopin concerto in which Pianist Sigismund Stojowski. once Brico's teacher, soloed academically. Brico conducted with force but not affectation. The strings were rarely delicate but they caught her determination. The trumpets were strident, too, but knew their notes. Only the French horns soured continuously. The women who played them seemed completely baffled...