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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another authoritative psychiatrist, Dr. Lee Wallingford Darrah of Gardner, Mass., wondered if there is a mentally normal person in the whole world. "Can it be," he asked, "that there is no such paragon as the normal person? Many text books do not even list 'normal' in their index. Such definitions as have been given are widely open to criticism and the conclusion is reached that normality is very difficult to find...
...estimates the relative power of the forces in the Italian government today. Professor Salvemini has spared no footnotes, and his conclusions are supported not by one casual quotation, but by pages of them. Despite these necessary appendages to a thorough work of scholarship, he has written no dull government text. "Under the Axe of Fascism" has just enough unrelenting prejudice, just enough biting sarcasm to give the books a lively, absorbing interest without distorting facts or disturbing its value...
...some extraordinary animals. There was a cow-pigeon, a sheep-duck, a zebra headed like a rhinoceros, a monstrous swan wattled like a rooster. "Nature is an inexhaustible mystery," reflected Vu, explaining that the pictures had been obtained in "The Wild Forests of Brazil." Elsewhere in the issue were text and pictures showing how "the famous German Professor Julius Lirpa" had perfected a method for extracting gold from the scales of fish...
Political opponents of Franklin Roosevelt were not long in seeing that this kind of political dynamite could blow larger holes in the Solid South than any other single campaign issue. Throughout the South began to appear cheap pamphlets containing blurred photographs of the Roosevelts consorting with Negroes, blatant text proclaiming them ardent Negrophiles. First public notice of this stirring of the black pot of race feeling was taken when copies of the Georgia Woman's World were placed on the chair of every delegate to the convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats," called by Georgia's Governor Eugene...
CALIFORNIA IN THE FIFTIES-Introduction and Explanatory Text by Douglas S. Watson-John Howell: San Francisco ($10 to $150). Rare collection of 50 early lithographs (1855-1861) of California, beautifully reproduced in a limited edition (1,000 copies). Collectors should jump at it. Famed U. S. Printer Edwin Grabhorn supervised the book's typography, design...