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Dates: during 1930-1939
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your country today's problems are farther developed--especially human regeneration. Look at Chicago's parks and their baths for children! Look at Carrel's book ('Man the Unknown'), which has had a wide influence in Europe...
Jean Françaix: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Paris Philharmonic, Nadia Boulanger conducting, with the composer at the piano; Victor: 4 sides). One of the friskiest foals in the Parisian paddock. 26-year-old Composer Françaix is as yet practically unknown to U. S. listeners. His neat, chattering concerto is the most skilful bit of musical window-dressing that has been exported from Paris in a long time...
...dictatorial dean, Dr. Justin H. Moore. In 1934 he suppressed an April Fool issue of The Ticker, student weekly, for "obscenity." He once censored the Monthly, has suspended editors for sauciness. Last week student editors learned that in 1934 Dean Moore wrote a book called Mexican Love, hitherto unknown to U. S. readers because it was published in London by Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., publishers of popular fiction...
...They were by John Kane, Pittsburgh laborer and house painter whose canvases stand alone in U. S. art as monumental documents of the Monongahela and Allegheny Valley steel country. An Irishman, who grew up working in Scottish mines and came to the U. S. at 19, Kane was unknown as an artist until he was past 60. He died in 1934 at 74. This week the rugged, blue-eyed, peg-legged man's extraordinary autobiography, Sky Hooks,* is finally published as it was told to his friend, Marie McSwigan...
...because neighboring Costa Rica suddenly abandoned plans to ratify a pact settling a long-disputed 150-mile border between the two States, Panama's President, Dr. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, last week signed a hurriedly drafted bill providing $1,000,000 for national defense. Hitherto, defense has been an unknown item in Panama's budget. Most of the money will be used to fortify the northern border, disputed since 1904 and over which Costa Rica and Panama fought a fierce, undeclared jungle war in 1921, which was halted by U. S. intervention...