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Sewall and John W. Norton '98 went to Africa in 1905 for three months of hunting, but Sewall, captivated by the dark continent, which he described as the "most fantastic, Alice-in-Wonderland country," remained there for 35 years while his companion returned to a normal existence in Boston...
...that sustains all life of earth was published this week by Professor George Gamow ( The Birth and Death of the Sun - Viking - $3). A distinguished Russian-born physicist who is now at George Washington University (Washington, D. C.), author of a recent popularization of physics called Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, Dr. Gamow writes clearly and imaginatively, knows when to stop short of over taxing lay readers. Some of his premises in The Birth and Death of the Sun are speculative and controversial, but they are based on the best recent investigations and they are never implausible...
Bertrand Russell has bright blue eyes, a big nose and very little chin, looks like Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter. The British upper classes believe that he is mad. For 30 years Earl Russell has scandalized them with his unconventional ideas about politics, marriage, education. According to one tale, a local rector, visiting an unorthodox school for children that Bertrand Russell and the second of his three wives ran in Hampshire a few years ago, knocked on the door, which was opened by a nine-year-old girl, stark naked. Cried he: "Good God!" Retorted she, slamming...
...quiz show, Information Please; best human interest, We, the People; best variety, Kate Smith's hour; best fun, Fred Allen's; best melodrama, Gang Busters' dramatization of Bank Robber Eddie Doll's career; best children's shows, Ireene Wicker's musicked Alice in Wonderland, The Nuremberg Stove from the Let's Pretend series; best verse, Archibald MacLeish's Air Raid, Norman Corwin's Seems Radio Is Here to Stay; best news dramatization, THE MARCH OF TIME; best spot news reporting, Jack Knell's on the Squalus disaster; best news commentators...
...bombings from the roof of a cotton mill. He liked to call himself the Commuting Minister, and preferred the hinterland ton Westernized coastal cities; only went to Shanghai, he said, when he thought it was time to change his shirt. Almost everywhere he went, his favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, went with...