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...famed Communist agitator of the 1920s and '30s, "Mother Bloor" (whose real name was Ella Reeve Omholt...
Blood on the Walls. Reading an astronomy pamphlet in the mid-1920s Von Braun saw a drawing of a rocket streaking through space to the moon. It illustrated an article about Pioneer Rocket Theorist Hermann Oberth, now 63 and a consultant to Von Braun's Huntsville team, which venerates him as "The Old Gentleman." Von Braun sent away for a copy of Oberth's classic book, The Rocket to the Interplanetary Spaces, was shocked to discover that it contained mostly mathematical equations. Until then, Von Braun had disliked math, and indeed had flunked it in school. "But," says...
...westernizing Turkey in the 1920s, Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Ataturk prohibited "astrologers, fortunetellers and dervishes," and the Mevlevi order went underground. Now the ban is being lifted quietly by the Turkish government; in addition to its monastic members, the order has some half million lay members in Turkey. That Founder Jalal al-Din Rumi and his teachings are still a living force was demonstrated last week in Istanbul when 200 policemen turned out to cope with 4,000 enthusiasts who broke the windows and smashed the counter of the city's main post office. Cause of the riot...
...Dark at the Top of the Stairs (by William Inge) takes the author, and the audience, back to the small-town world of his 1920s childhood. In a rambling old house it portrays a middle-class family; there is a slightly crude, life-speckled traveling salesman (Pat Hingle) who loves but forever collides with his gently exasperating wife (Teresa Wright). There is their unconfident, boy-frightened teen-age daughter; there is their small son, who can be hard and soft in the wrong places. Everybody, including the wife's sister (Eileen Heckart) and her dentist husband, is so outwardly...
Manhattan's Dr. Gustave Aufricht, 63, was amused by what he regards as a current fad for big breasts, because in the early days of his practice, in the 1920s, an equally common problem was the reverse-how to reduce large breasts.* Now, to make bosoms bigger, he uses fat taken from the woman's own body (usually the buttocks, which many women are glad to have reduced anyway). Dr. Aufricht and his colleagues at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital will have nothing to do with a patient who shows signs of emotional disturbance...