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...press had a field day lambasting a favorite whipping boy of the 1930s-the Supreme Court. To editorialists and cartoonists it seemed that strange things were happening in the marble palace where once sat the solemn Nine Old Men. Solemnly, the staid New York Times deplored "the unstable Court . . . with its recent astonishing record of dissents . . . confusion and uncertainty." Sardonic, pink-faced Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch took a slightly merrier view. He pictured the Justices as a bunch of middle-aged gamins, pinking one another's skulls with legal slingshots...
...staid (but never slow) New York Times last week bought a radio station. Sold for an undisclosed amount was Manhattan's WQXR (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), famed for its steady stream of good music. Aside from the obvious reason that a newspaper buys a radio station to disseminate news and keep its name before the public, one reason why the Times bought it probably had to do with a man named Hogan...
These charges made most life-insurance men, who regard their companies as models of business propriety, hopping mad. But they were determined not to get into an uncontrollable brawl. They left all the talking to the president of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers' Association, staid Henry William Manning. Snorted Mr. Manning: "The investigation is farcical as well as political and needlessly disturbing to 4,000,000 policyholders...
...Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study (TIME, Aug. 9), was recommended to Smith by a Chinese physicist, Miss Chien Shiung Wu. In perfect English, Kusaka declared his opposition to the Emperor of Japan but, as shy as he was able, preferred not to enter the controversy. The staid Springfield Republican, said: "Come, let us be reasonable. The protest was . . . injudicious. . . .Tolerance . . . will do no harm...
...appeal to the old American spirit was made in Boston last week before the staid New England Council. Council President Edward Everett Chase pointed to ". . . the great inconsistency between what is being said about free enterprise and what is being done by owners of the capital that is essential to free enterprise...