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TIME's "People" department of the July 17 issue mentions our Canadian economist-humourist Stephen Leacock and the rescue he was involved in recently. Though your staff usually get the background for their stories pretty well, they missed out on this For early in his writing career, in his volume Sunshine Sketches, Leacock dealt with the small-town doings of his home in Ontario. His yarn of the sinking of the Mariposa Belle with a picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally...
...background was another Democrat-Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhode Island, no orator but a great conniver. At his home the President's opponents met secretly, unsuspected. And another Democrat headed the Judiciary Committee which had the bill in charge: Ashurst of Arizona. That elegant obfuscator contributed nobly the second essential of McNary's stratagem: delay...
...central figures in the Central Military Academy clique, right-hand man to the Generalissimo. Said he: "Before 1941 Japan will be begging for peace." The General's rosy picture was painted from numerous facts, figures, estimates, generalizations gathered and made by Chinese, in part substantiated by foreign observers. Background for Chinese military optimism...
...Darwin Divide. Many scientists engaged in the controversy between biology and Mrs. Grundy over Darwin. Conklin was one of the few to do so who had a background of youthful religious fervor. He plumped for Darwinism early, tried to show reasonable Christians that there was no threat from evolutionary doctrine to a practical religion based on Faith, Hope & Charity and the Golden Rule. (Today his religion is a sort of altruistic, pantheistic idealism.) His feeling for religion did not cause him to spare his opponents a crack...
...Heart's centre" of the story is petite, passionate Mrs. Esther Jack, a stage designer with a grown daughter and a nebulous husband somewhere in the Park Avenue background. Hero is not Eugene Gant but a presumably new character named George ("Monk") Webber. Unlike Eugene, he is of medium height, pug-nosed, simian-shaped. His antecedents are carefully different from Gant's. But no disguise will hide a Thomas Wolfe hero...