Word: wellses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THE SHAPE or THINGS TO COME-H. G. Wells-Macmillan ($2.50).
Herbert George Wells has always been fascinated by shapes-especially by the shapes of such amorphous figures as Science, History, Tendencies, Cultures. Often in quasi-serious fantastic tales, in mostly serious pamphlets of prophecy, he has tried to describe what particularly tantalizes him: the Future's shape. His listeners...
A Cassandra, but an increasingly chatty one, Prophet Wells fills 431 pages with his latest, most garrulous forecast.
Still a perfectionist but not so optimistic as he has been, Author Wells says things will get worse before they get better. In 1935 and 1937 will come world-wide influenza epidemics. By 1942. gas masks, metal hats and epaulets will be weekday wear for civilians. By 1940 kidnapping will...
Tarzan the Fearless (Sol Lesser). Although Japanese swimmers are by far the most efficient in the world, no one of them is likely to be elevated from his tank into the trees. The rôle of Tarzan in the cinema is reserved for U. S. paddlers like Johnny Weissmuller...