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Despite these scarehead advance notices, the Freethinkers' meeting resulted in no rows, attracted 900 people, deist or otherwise, who felt in safe enough company with such speakers and endorsers of the congress as H. G. Wells, Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis, George Bernard Shaw, C. E. M. Joad. G. D. H. Cole, J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Edouard Herriot, Somerset Maugham. Typical subjects for discussion at the meetings: Science and the Churches; Youth, the Schools and Free Thought; Present Religions Reaction and the Menace of the Vatican...
...London, 82-year-old Sigmund Freud underwent an operation on his prostate gland...
...leather goods are the chief products of these factories. Many were set up by the Jews in plants abandoned in British "distressed areas" such as Durham. In Hampstead, London, there are now so many German Jews that Bobbies have been put on the beat who speak German. Dr. Sigmund Freud exclaimed to friends recently how startled he was when a Hampstead policeman, apparently 100% British, suddenly greeted him with a booming "Guten Abend, Herr Doktor...
...turns persuasive, glib, caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed," can arrive at truth. A praiser of times past, he dislikes Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Stravinsky music, surrealist painting, modern advertising. His objection to science appears to be that it does not provide enough digestive pills of wisdom to go with its banquet of knowledge...
...three months ago The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud was published as a Modern Library Giant (TIME, May 23). The original edition, cautiously figured to last six months, was 10,000 copies. With few critics paying it attention, it sold out in eleven days. A second edition of 20,000 copies has now dwindled to its last few thousand copies, and Freud has come back as the fastest-selling reprint throughout...