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...Albert Einstein of today is no longer the timid bewildered man who visited the U. S. in 1930. He has acquired considerable poise in public, is not so afraid of the world as he used to be, entertains frequently. He has learned that it is not necessary to associate with anyone whom he does not like and trust. His telephone number is not listed and the telephone company will not furnish it. He leads the kind of life he likes and the U. S. suits him very well...
...INTELLIGENT INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY-P. W. Bridgman-Macmillan ($2.50). RETREAT FROM REASON-Lancelot T. Hogben-Random House ($1). By the centenary of his birth (1938), predicted Historian Henry Adams, science would have built "a world that sensitive and timid natures could regard without a shudder." But in 1938 science's millennium is still to seek. Shuddering harder than ever, many a modern now says science is a phoney...
...here the timid, faithless demagogue...
...Said a timid voice inside: "Did you say you're the law?" It was the voice of a Mr. George Weinberg, who was living with Dixie and his doxie in their hideout. Mr. Dewey had been looking around for Mr. Weinberg...
...their beds: Doc, who often gets his words and ideas mixed. Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy, Bashful and Dopey, who did not know if he could talk because he never tried. Squatty and bearded, looking much alike except for Dopey who, being younger, has no beard, the seven dwarfs have timid hearts: they know Snow White is the Queen's step-daughter and will not keep her till she promises to make gooseberry pie. Snow White will not let them eat until they wash their hands...