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...Anti-Alcoholism Superhuman? "A sinister plot engineered by the wine industry," frothed Briton Wilfred Winterton. Over fruit juice at a nearby cafe the Drys held a council of war, resolved to censure Borotra's scandalous remarks. But the Half-Wets fought back. "They want to prevent us from drinking, smoking, even making love," snorted Andre Mignot, secretary-general of France's National Defense Committee Against Alcoholism. "We're French. You can't be an abstainer in France unless you're a hero or a saint...
...main issue of Author Borden's novel-God or Caesar-is presented clearly in the account of the trial. But the human significance of the problem is blurred by the author's strong suggestion of a superhuman solution: Martin is martyred under circumstances markedly resembling those under which Christ was sent to the Cross-as indeed his whole story is touched up with quiet little parallels to Christ's life...
Without casting any aspersions on such leaders as Governor Fine of Pennsylvania [TIME, June 30], Senator Knowland of California and others who have strong political leverage, I only wish to suggest that it would invoke an almost superhuman strength of character for an individual in such a political position to act solely for the best interests of the American people...
Harvard's swimming team, second to the superhuman Elis last year in the Eastern Intercollegiate League, opens its season tonight in a non-league meet with M.I.T. Bill Brooks' freshmen launch the splashing contest in the Blockhouse pool at 7:30 p.m., and Hal Ulen's varsity goes on at about...
...eagerness to read everything, from the hearts of celery to the mind of God, as well as in the gingerbread elaborations of his style, Author Blackwood is more a Victorian than a modern. Yet, far more than most Victorians, Blackwood has a fervor for the inhuman, subhuman, or superhuman, and a distaste for the world of men. The story in which Black wood expresses his keenest distaste for actual life is perhaps his most carefully composed one, The Lost Valley. Twin brothers, who have lived only for each other for 35 years, find themselves in love with the same woman...