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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This press story of last week might have been the text for a lecture on burns which Harvard's Dr. Robert Henry Aldrich gave at the A.M.A. Convention...
...class. Not yet has he slackened the pace, for the still does all his work from source material taken directly from the archives of Asia Minor, records which demand a speaking knowledge of the world's most difficult tongues. An amazed tutee once caught him translating an original Greek text directly into Sanskrit as fast as writing allowed. His scholarship has carried him from the docks of Portsmouth to friendship with luminaries such as Kittredge, Russell, Gay, and Housman. Favorite recreations besides writing a book include Wodehouse, detective fiction, and travelling--the latter having taken him to every port...
Corporal James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story, etc.), on location at Moffett Field, Calif, since giving up his $1,500-a-week salary to play straight man for Uncle Sam, filed a bill of complaints with his Hollywood agent, Leland Hayward. Excerpts from the text printed in Sidney Skolsky's column...
...took a deep breath and let it out in a slow sigh. He closed the history text and pushed away the notebook. Those were the days, he thought. The Renaissance, the rebirth of an old culture and the birth of a new one; that was the time when he should have lived. He would certainly have been another Da Vinci, an artist at everything. He could see himself now; architect, inventor, poet--Vag leaned back perilously in his chair--the full man. What chance did he have today--the chair jerked forward again--in a regimented world where...
...professor of philosophy at New York University, onetime co-editor of The New International, theoretical magazine of U.S. Trotskyists. He writes deliberately unemotional English with primer simplicity. The tone of his book is amoral, nonpartisan, scientific. The theory he expounds makes The Managerial Revolution as morbidly fascinating as a text book vivisection, possibly the most sensational book of political theory since The Revolution of Nihilism...