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This district is particularly interesting to the geographer as it is an ice bowl, the greatest area of glacial ice known outside the Polar regions. Many of Alaska's most famous glaciers are mere outlet trickles from this-survivor of the Pleistocene...
...employer or employe who objects to the wages fixed by Mr. Andrews may kick directly to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in his area, thence...
Announcement of the U. S. publication of Tropic of Cancer was surprising literary news not only because of its underground reputation. It revealed the recent revival of interest in the neglected field of experimental writing-that cloudy area of modern letters with its little magazines, obscure poems, defiant manifestoes, communications from Ezra Pound. In Manhattan a plump, handsome periodical, Twice a Year, took up where The Dial left off a decade ago. In Paris appeared The Black Book, a novel by Lawrence Durrell, who gave promise of outdoing Henry Miller in the form that admirers call the dithyrambic novel...
Although it has been tried with success in such centers as Kansas City and Philadelphia, the New England Postgraduate Assembly is the first of its kind in this area, and the fact that attendance was double that expected is said by many doctors to insure continuance of the project...
Other new wrinkles include rotary door latches that catch without slamming; increased visibility through bigger windshield area; sliding sunshine panels in sedan tops; "catwalk-cooling" grilles low-set on the catwalk apron between hood and fenders to scoop up the theoretically cooler air near the ground. Adopted by no manufacturer but approved by the U. S. Patent Office is an extra-special gadget invented by David O. Wilson of Santa Monica, Calif.-at the touch of a button on the dash, this rear-end device waggles a derisive tongue and gives a Bronx cheer to the horntooter behind...