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President Scott, however, thinks otherwise. His prodigies, apparently selected without reference to emotional or psychic stability are collectively thrust into an artificial environment, minutely supervised by a committee, and submitted to a special brand of instruction. Revision of college courses to provide opportunity for work at varied levels would be a much saner procedure. That the Northwestern prodigies will be successful in their college work is as obvious as it is irrelevant. After four years, however, they will leave, socially unfitted, intellectually strained, and quite as far from the good life as they had been before. Possibly the professorial...
Asked if his brand of soul vibrations might not prove in the end tedious. Dr. Goebbels slapped his thigh. "You know me!" he cried. "I am a sworn enemy of every sort of boredom! . . . Best of all, our propaganda is not going to cost the German people anything. Instead my Ministry cannot fail to show a profit- the radio advertising, you know...
...Woodin, his eyes as blue as his shirt and collar, his cupid mouth pursed in an easy little smile, sitting informally on the edge of his desk, swinging his legs. Piped a pert newshawk: "Mr. Secretary, you're in a pretty hot spot, aren't you?" The brand-new Secretary reached down to his big black leather chair, rubbed his hand slowly over its seat and softly replied: "No, it isn't hot. really...
Paying the U. S. $90, each member of the Hoover Cabinet last week had his heavy black leather & mahogany chair taken out of the White House and crated for shipment to his home as a souvenir.* Into the spacious, many-windowed Cabinet room were trundled ten brand new chairs for Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fill with his ten chief advisers. On the high stiff back of each chair was a metal plate naming the Cabinet job but not the jobholder...
...Rensselaer, president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, called Fell "not the kind of man to take his own life . . . not a quitter." In 1923 Fell was fined $500 and costs on his discharged butler's complaint that Fell and two servants had beaten him and tried to brand him with a torch because the butler knew Fell rang false fire alarms for excitement. Next month his wife divorced him on grounds of drunkenness...