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...less tricky postures of amazement at death, and if fingers moved less automatically to triggers, this would have been a better novel. Even as it is, a queer cross between a Freudian dream and a Grand Guignol shocker, it is good enough to suggest that it will almost certainly sire a better...
Next week that stirring scene and many another in the lives of the Muhlenberg (family-greatest in the history of U.S. Lutheranism-will be re-enacted at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. The occasion: the 200th anniversary of the arrival in the U.S. of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), sire of Washington's general and ancestor of many another famed parson, statesman and educator. He was the real founder and patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the U.S., was called Gachs-wunga-roracks by his Indian friends because "his words went through the hearts of men like a saw through...
...broad or even Shakespearean Scots the witches talked, but operatic Italian. They hailed him as "Macbetto, di Glamis Sire! . . . Macbetto, di Candor Sire! . . . Macbetto, di Scozia Re!". He was Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, King of Scotland-and hero of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi which was last given in Manhattan in 1850. This Mediterranean Macbeth, revived by Mrs. Lytle Hull's New Opera Company (TIME, Oct. 27), made a stirring music drama. Able Fritz Busch conducted...
...their studies in sex, Drs. Brookhart & Dey went to the guinea pig. They short-circuited the hypothalamus in nine animals, produced indifference to females in seven. (The other two, who managed to sire four litters, were not as severely injured as their companions.) The sex glands of all the animals remained in healthy condition. Loss of interest in sex, concluded the scientists, was due to a change in the guinea pigs' "mental outlook...
Birthday. Man O' War, glamor race horse of American thoroughbreds, longtime champion sire; in fine fettle; his 24th; at Faraway Farm, near Lexington...