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...difficult task of brushing aside the veil of popular adulation to portray the man as he really is, H. Gordon Garbedian, a science editor of the New York Times, has essayed in the first published biography of the life of this great mathematical genius. With a sweeping imagination which, although it tends to overdramatize prosaic details, never fails to sustain the reader's interest, the author unfolds an absorbing tale of a courageous fighter whose entire youth was a bitter battle against poverty and racial prejudice...
...ardent winter sports fan, Princess Fawziya reportedly fell in love with the Crown Prince during a holiday trip to Switzerland two years ago. Like modern-minded young Queen Farida she wears the veil, in deference to Moslem custom, but lets it hang loosely about her neck...
...himself, Jan Masaryk has no personal plans. He was offered a sheaf of British directorates, turned them down. Maybe next year he will write a book-"just a little one." It should be a bestseller on the century's best sellout. Meanwhile he says he has "taken the veil for democracy...
...become giants by injecting them with crude pituitary extract. He dwarfed rats by pituitary removal, then with pituitary injections restored them to normal size. He made it clear that the reddish little gland was intimately concerned with one of the most important of biological processes-growth. Since then the veil of ignorance has been gradually lifted...
...these deeds were as nothing to his turning of the face of Turkey from East to West. The abolition of the veil, fez, the institution of polygamy meant the abandonment of the nation's Moslem past. The substitution of civil, criminal and commercial codes of law copied from Western models for the old sheria laws led to the abolition of special privileges for foreigners. The writing of a new language with a new alphabet made literacy a privilege of the masses rather than of priests and intellectuals. Turkey in 1938 is a westernized nation...