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...still alive, about whether he will go mad and betray himself, his comrades. In the darkness, he makes speeches, imagines music. After a while he feels the risk of insanity too near, decides to kill himself. But his finger nails are not yet sharp enough to open a vein; he tries to sharpen them on the wall, then sees he will have to let them grow a little longer. Finally he hears a tapping on the wall, makes out the fragment of a message: TAKE COURAGE ONE CAN ... The message is interrupted by the muffled noises of guards beating someone...
...most cursory reader of the articles written for the Crimson by the deans of the graduate schools cannot but be impressed by the optimistic vein of the contributions so far published. Nearly every dean discussed facts and figures of employment and special problems related to his field with wholly admirable address and frankness...
...always done him justice. Some of his trumpetings have merely deafened the ears they assaulted, some of his more winning piccolo-and-bassoon effects have roused more laughter than thought. Since retiring from the editorship of the American Mercury, Mencken has brought out several treatises in soberer vein. His biggest opus, first published in the brave days of 1919, last week reappeared in a guise so transfigured that it was almost unrecognizable...
Babies and hospitals made the headlines in Manhattan. When Dr. Robert Arthur Wilson of Brooklyn reported that he got 400 stillborn babies to breathe by injecting a drug called alpha-lobeline hydrochloride into the vein of their umbilical cords while they were held upside down, fellow obstetricians pounced upon him. Objection No. 1: Dr. Wilson used a drug which the A.M.A. has not approved. His retort: "We must not let babies die just because the A.M.A. has not approved the drug." Objection No. 2: He did not first try such standard methods of stimulating breath in the newborn as blowing...
...itself was William Randolph Hearst: American,* by Mrs. Fremont Older, wife of the late great San Francisco editor, who helped her prepare the book, died before it was completed. In 581 pages Mrs. Older pours out her wholehearted admiration for her husband's old boss. In a different vein, fortnight ago appeared Imperial Hearst: A Social Biography,† by Ferdinand Lundberg, onetime Chicago reporter and New York Herald Tribune Wall Street man. A charter member of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union with which Mr. Hearst is perpetually at war, Biographer Lundberg entrenches himself on the economic Left...