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Another time the auditor found that he would be unable to attend the class at nine o'clock. A bit appalled by what might take place he called the professor and explained the situation. "Can you come at ten?" the professor asked. That suited the auditor perfectly. So at ten o'clock Mr. Coolidge held forth in Harvard...
...indebted to "Time" for the latest bit of Conant lore. The President, it seems, has been somewhat nostalgic for test tubes and the small of chlorophyll. The new job didn't offer the opportunities for diversion that the old one did. But Mrs. Conant solved the problem. The President has taken up painting to while away his spare moments...
...Authority for Land, for Production, and for Money. The symbol of EPIC will be the Golden Bee (in contrast to the predatory Blue Eagle of the NRA) and its motto, "I Produce, I Defend." No doubt such things have a magic all their own, but it seems just a bit optimistic to expect them to make Sinclair the next governor of California. Opposition from the Dark Powers is of course foreseen by the prophet, but apparently mostly in the form of attempts to compromise him with a beautiful blonde...
...only is Sinclair's economic theory shoddy, but his Rousseau-istic faith in the goodness of man is child-like in its simplicity. That all the wealthy people in California would allow themselves to be peacefully legislated out of their property in a few months presumes just a bit too much on the softening influence of California sunshine. Sinclair's name may appear on the Democratic ballot in the primaries this August, but no doubt Harry Chandler and William Randolph Hearst will find means to ensure his getting no more than the fifty thousand votes he has been accustomed...
...world to manage." He points to its unparalleled turnover of 30,000 inmates a year, remarks that it harbors more drug cases (1,200 a year) than all Federal prisons combined,* more homosexuals (200) and alcoholics (1,500) than any other U. S. penal institution. Only untimely bit in Mr. Fishman's article is the cachet he gives Warden McCann for the small number of escapes from the prison. "Such an escape record," says Mr. Fishman, "could be achieved only by a warden dog-like in his devotion...