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...Fabre first attracted wide popular attention in his native France. In the U.S., although respect for him in scientific circles has always been deep, popular readership has been comparatively narrow; the only U.S. translations of his works are lengthy studies of single insects, published about the time of World War I. This week the publication of The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre (Edited by Edwin Way Teale; Dodd, Mead, $3.50) gave English-speaking readers their first full view of the patient Provengal scientist whom Victor Hugo called "The Homer of the Insects...
Pastor Martin Niemöller was packing his bags again. Since U.S. troops ended his eight-year imprisonment in concentration camps for defying Hitler, the lean, 57-year-old evangelical clergyman and ex-U-boat commander (World War I) has been known in Europe and the U.S. as German Protestantism's most dramatic spokesman. This week he is off to Australia...
Were U.S. railroads pricing themselves out of business? The Interstate Commerce Commission thought so. Since war's end, the railroads have asked for, and received, seven freight-rate increases, but freight revenues have been slipping anyway. Last week ICC reluctantly handed out an eighth increase (an average of 3.7%), boosting freight rates-and shippers' bills-an estimated $293 million annually. The commission also handed down a warning: the railroads' higher rates are diverting more & more business to trucks, a trend that "is too impressive and formidable to be ignored...
Affable, 52-year-old Roy Hurley has been in & out of the airplane business ever since he got a job as engine inspector for the Army's air service during World War I. Later he formed his own sparkplug concern, then moved in as vice president in charge of manufacturing of the Bendix Aviation Corp., where he remained for 13 years before joining Ford...
Died. Edward Lee Thorndike, 74, since 1904 Columbia University's famed educational psychologist; of a heart ailment; in Montrose, N.Y. One of the creators of the original Army Alpha intelligence test used in World War I, he wrote more than 450 books and articles on experimental psychology and the nature of learning...