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...article's author is Thomas Stowell, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, who in his youth studied under Sir William Gull, physician to Queen Victoria. Another of Gull's patients, writes Stowell, was Jack the Ripper. Although Stowell refers to the killer as "S" throughout the article, he drops enough clues to leave little doubt as to the madman's identity...
Died. Count Ilia A. Tolstoy, 67, grandson of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1924 and became noted in his own right as an explorer, conservationist and ichthyologist; in Manhattan. As an OSS agent in World War II, Tolstoy led an expedition from India into Tibet to enlist the Dalai Lama's aid in preparing a last Allied redoubt in Asia, to be used if the Nazis and Japanese managed to link forces in India. As a scientist, he developed a hypodermic harpoon for live capture of huge sharks and contributed widely to the conservation...
Such a jeremiad is not the conclusion of a radical school reformer but of a concerned FORTUNE editor who visited more than 100 schools during a 3½-year, $300,000 study sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation. Charles Silberman, 45, is the author of a perceptive summary of race relations, Crisis in Black and White. His new book, Crisis in the Classroom (Random House; $10), is likely to be as widely discussed as James B. Conant's 1959 report, The American High School Today. Silberman finds that even highly reputed schools are so preoccupied with order and discipline that...
Died. Richard Hofstadter, 54, U.S. political and social historian, the Pulitzer prizewinning author of The Age of Reform (1955), which charted the great changes in U.S. life from 1890 to 1940; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...great idea as a stunt in civil disobedience. But as a book, the balloon does not hold up quite so well, though it may fascinate people who daydream about becoming system saboteurs. Author Hatch has helped his story by including a fine short course on the myths and truths about jet planes, their noise and their impact on human beings. One old saw neatly skewered: the aviation industry's contention that man can adjust to any noise level. That is simply medically false. In response to such facts, sufferers of noise pollution can only sound a loud "Hear! Hear...