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Died. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, 67, famed Jewish neurologist, founder of the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, Nazi exile since 1933; in Nice. Unkempt and walrus-mustached, he was called "the Einstein of Sex," had heard the confidences of 30,000 sexually maladjusted people. He believed that absolute sexual normality is rarer than abnormality, crusaded for candor, removal of restrictive sex laws and customs. Said he: "If a man wants to understand a woman, he must discover the woman in himself, and if a woman would understand a man, she must dig in her own consciousness to discover...
...taught briefly in the public schools in that State, tried to write and finally moved away because his efforts to make lignite coal burn wearied him. He went to California, reported for San Francisco newspapers, was an English instructor at Stanford. At 46, he still has the slightly unkempt appearance, the tolerant smile, the low, mellow voice of an obscure but well-liked college professor...
...Moscow, near the west wall of the Kremlin, urchins used to run and play across a large unkempt field where once stood the Cathedral of the Redeemer. Lately, however, they have been shooed away by bands of surveyors, engineers, architects. The land was being inspected and groomed for Russia's latest and greatest monument, the Palace of the Soviets, which, when completed (perhaps in 1937), will be the world's largest and tallest building...
...emaciated, unkempt, aging man who looks more than his 50 years was taken out of prison in Prince Albert, Sask. one night last week, bundled hastily into a railway car. On the eastern edge of Canada, at Halifax, a ship awaited him. He would be put aboard, taken to his native Russia. There, he felt sure, waited Death. He was Peter Verigin II, leader of Western Canada's 17,000 Doukhobors. With him were government officials, to hustle him along, keep his progress quiet. When the train reached Montreal Peter Verigin II was hustled through the station so that...
...launched forth on our subject at great length in what one noble journal described as "the most vitriolic indictment ever hurled at any student body" and no one paid any attention to us except the International and Associated Press Associations. We created a really gigantic disturbance over the unkempt and disarrayed student, and after all the smoke and flame cleared away, there stood the same student, looking, if anything, a little more the worse for wear than usual. Students have a disturbing way of accepting editorials as surly Monday morning expressions of Saturday night gaiety, of reading them...