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TIME's "People" department of the July 17 issue mentions our Canadian economist-humourist Stephen Leacock and the rescue he was involved in recently. Though your staff usually get the background for their stories pretty well, they missed out on this For early in his writing career, in his volume Sunshine Sketches, Leacock dealt with the small-town doings of his home in Ontario. His yarn of the sinking of the Mariposa Belle with a picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally...
Three days later, in Hyde Park, the President held a press conference. Never had reporters seen Franklin Roosevelt in such a mood of passive defeatism. Though not knocked out, he appeared definitely stunned by what he had taken. Only flash of his old self was a sidelong crack to the effect that the Senate, in leaving Neutrality up in the air, causing "uncertainty" (for which he has so often been blamed) and "gambling" against war abroad, had bud-nipped a nice little boom.* > The Hatch bill effectually demolished the national Roosevelt political machine, as distinct from the national Farley machine...
...year-old Elwood Cooke of Portland, Ore., a steady though unimaginative performer who sprang from 28th place to seventh in U. S. ranking last year and three weeks ago sprang a surprise on the brass hats of the United States Lawn Tennis Association when he reached the finals at Wimbledon and then put up a stubborn five-set struggle before letting Bobby Riggs take the world's No. 1 title...
...Children should be allowed to dress and wash themselves, even though they cannot do it well or quickly. "The useless assistance given to the child is the first root of all repressions and hence the most perilous injury the adult individual can do to the child. . . . The adult must help the child, but help him in such a way that he may act for himself...
This week 27 Journal employes joined the Herald. About 500 were out of jobs. Though up-&-coming Sam Newhouse will be the power behind the rejuvenated Herald, he was reluctant to have his coup known. Over most of the weekend he was locked up in a Syracuse Hotel room but the only word to be got from the room was: "Mr. Newhouse is not here...