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...Bankers Association is that at each annual election the second vice president shall accede to the first vice presidency and the first vice president shall accede to the presidency. U. S. Banking thus picks its official spokesman two years in advance. Many things have happened in the last two years???particularly to Rudolf S. Hecht, chairman of New Orleans' Hibernia National Bank, who was elected second vice president of the ABA in the dark autumn...
THESE HURRYING YEARS???Gerald Heard ?Oxford ($3). Fascinating reading by a distinguished English author, editor, liberal, who is convinced that "something has happened," but who, doubtful of specific formulas, confines himself to a mixture of the minutiae with the larger aspects of that "something...
...statement which gives the reader the general idea that since 1913 I've been slipping back from that "peak." An idea that is damaging to my financial standing as well as my pride. . . . And the 21 years since have been?except for the depression years???increasingly busy and active...
...mostly in the Virgo cluster of nebulae. Drs. Baade & Zwicky estimate that each galaxy has one super-nova every thousand years. The average nebula contains a billion stars. If one star committed suicide in the super-nova manner every thousand years, the nebula would be exhausted in one trillion years???which happens to be the figure commonly set by astrophysicists as the minimum life span of stars. Thus Drs. Baade & Zwicky hold it not unlikely that soon or late every star is destined to burst forth as a supernova. If they are right the old concept...
...SPINNER OF THE YEARS???Phyllis Bentley?Macmillan ($2.50). Reprint of an early novel by the English author of Inheritance and A Modern Tragedy...