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John Warkentin was born 25 years ago in Hamburg, Germany, son of a Russian Mennonite preacher and teacher who took a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and is now a professor of German literature at Bethel College. The elder Warkentin is currently trying to have the Supreme Court pass on his application for citizenship, which has been refused because, abiding by the tenets of his religion, he will take no oath to bear arms. Son John will take no such oath either. He studied at Brown University under Dr. Leonard Carmichael, went along with Carmichael to the University...
Argus was a mythological monster who never missed a trick, for some of his 100 eyes were always ajar. Considering that such a creature might well have been the pure prototype of the modern international journalist, Vladimir Poliakoff took "Argus" as a pen name in 1924, when he wrote an article for the British Fortnightly Review. By a mistake the printer made it "Augur." The accidental pseudonym served just as well for Journalist Poliakoff's political forecasts, and Augur it has remained. In 14 years that by-line has come to mean as much as 22K inside a ring...
...some preliminary rumbles were heard, drowning out the purely scientific aspects of the gathering. Speaking obliquely, as doctors often do, the retiring president of the Physicians, Professor James Howard Means of Harvard, urged his adherents "to develop an enlightened opposition party within the democracy of the A.M.A." His adherents took this to mean that Dr. Means was in favor of ousting the elected heads of the A.M.A. But Dr. Means merely meant that he feared that those leaders may prevent his ideas from being discussed at San Francisco...
...railroad problem to have a solution, the President contented himself with sending along the Splawn report together with the comments of such advisers as Jesse Jones, Henry Morgenthau, J. J. Pelley, William O. Douglas, most of whom gave it less than complete approval. As his own comment, the President took occasion to call certain functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission "in all probability unconstitutional," to repeat his opposition to Government ownership of the roads, to agree that from a long-range point of view consolidation of all U. S. transport under one body would be advisable. But on the immediate...
When the late Charles Flandrau (Viva Mexico!) was a star Saturday Evening Post contributor 40 years ago, one thing mightily depressed him. That was the changes that took place in his stories when they appeared in print. If he gave one of his characters a highball, the drink became a glass of lemonade. In those days a Post character might kill Indians, but he could not smoke a cigaret. Last week a collection of 22 stories chosen from the 234 published in last year's Saturday Evening Post revealed how greatly they had changed since that genteel period. Post...