Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Wings, Funk & Wagnalls last fall published Jordanoff's Through the Overcast, a course in weather and instrument flying done in the same pithy, well-illustrated style. By itself and packaged with Your Wings it has thus far sold 10,000 copies in the U. S., is still going at the rate of about 500 a week...
European typhus fever, also called "spotted fever'' and "ship fever," is not to be confused with typhoid fever. For generations it was the scourge of armies, and it still flourishes in Poland, Russia and the Balkans. It is transmitted by lice and fleas (hence delousing stations in the World War). The disease is due to a cosmopolitan virus called Rickettsia prowazeki,* which dwells in the intestines of the filthy little insects. Vaccines made from dead typhus viruses provide immunity from the disease, but such vaccines are difficult to make, for Rickettsia prowazeki cannot be easily cultured in artificial...
Weston's passionately perfected technique for getting sharp definition in distant as well as foreground objects once inspired the "F.64" Group-a club of California photographers sworn to experiment with that tiniest aperture of the diaphragm. For exacting selfdiscipline, Weston is still unique. He never takes duplicate negatives, never "crops" or trims a print to improve his composition...
Changes of Time, finished in 1888, was one of several remarkable still-lifes painted by the late Connecticut artist, John Haeberle. Others were named Chicago Bills and Grandma's Hearth. No description of Chicago Bills survives, but Grandma's Hearth, the records say, was so real that visitors tried to flick the painted flies off it. Painter Haeberle got a name as a worthy successor to Connecticut's great Eyefooling painter, William Harnett...
...idyllic felicity of Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century and Seven More Years (Viking, $2.75), a nostalgic account of his first 21 years. Those who read his latest poems, Vigils (1936), will be prepared for this serene counterpart in prose. To most other readers Siegfried Sassoon is still associated with 1) his realistic war trilogy (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, etc.) and his bitter war poems (CounterAttack, etc.); 2) his spectacularly murderous heroism in the trenches (in order, he once told Robert Graves, "to keep up the good reputation of the poets"); and 3) his equally spectacular pacifism...