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...Hawk. On the grounds of an insane asylum at Ransom. Pa. the head farmer noticed his chickens scurry suddenly for cover. A hen hawk, he thought, must be about. Overhead he saw what looked like a huge predatory bird. The "hen hawk'' landed, turned out to be the sailplane Albatross II in which Richard du Pont made a world's record distance flight fortnight ago (TIME, July 9). Out stepped Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite, to explain he had just soared 80 mi. from Elmira. N. Y. where the fifth annual contest of the Soaring Society...
...against White. On June 25, 1906 Thaw and his wife attended a show on the roof of Madison Square Garden. There without warning Thaw shot White dead. At the trial the Thaw defense was temporary insanity ("a brain storm''). Acquitted of murder, Thaw was committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. He enjoyed enough freedom to begat a child one visiting day. Later he escaped, gained legal release. After her husband divorced her in 1915, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw led a precarious existence, in vaudeville and second-rate night clubs. For several years she worked in Chicago, lately...
...down at this point either in reading quality or in the amount of degradation and muck which M. Destouches' lascivious here continues to encounter. The story shifts to Africa, then to the United States; back to France; then finale in the shadow of a private insane asylum where Bardamn is director. American readers, perhaps, will be disappointed when "The Journey," which begins as if to be a French "All Quiet on the Western Front" develops into a sort of "Candido." Throughout the whole book there persists the same strange humor to lighten the continued examinations of subjects gross and primitive...
...SMALL WORLD-Walter Bodin & Burnet Hershey-Coward-McCann ($3). In the 18th Century it was quite the thing to visit Bedlam, London's lunatic asylum, to have a hearty laugh at its mad inmates. Twentieth-Centuryites are more squeamish, but they still pay good money to circus sideshows to see grown men and women whose under-functioning pituitary glands have made midgets. For those who cannot or will not attend such freak shows, Authors Bodin & Hershey have written a book that answers all conceivable questions about these monstrous mites. Midgets are correctly proportioned miniature copies of adults, usually between...
...awhile in Manhattan, worked in the Ford factory in Detroit, lived in uneasy clover as a harlot's fancy man. Back in Paris, he finished medical school, practiced in a slum, got mixed up in an attempted murder, and ended as the unwilling locum tenens of a lunatic asylum. Daring Author Céline makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone. Many a reader will find nothing handy to throw. Shocking to the Goncourt Academicians mainly for stylistic reasons (says Defender...