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...front cover) Chicago's brisk, businesslike George William Cardinal Mundelein, 63, spent his days last week between his office, his residence, his cathedral, his villa at Mundelein, where on a nine-hole course he golfs in the high 40's. Boston's stocky, rugged William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 75 and in the best of health, attended to routine business, looked in on a priests' retreat at St. John's Seminary. Philadelphia's austere Denis Cardinal Dougherty, 70, who lately bought a $215,000 house at Overbrook, was traveling quietly in Europe. The fourth U. S. Prince of the Roman...
Meantime it was revealed that Dictator Stalin was doing a brisk cash trade with Dictator Mussolini in war materials shipped on Greek vessels out of Black Sea ports, to the perplexity of Communist stevedores who have been led to understand that the Third International scowls at imperialist wars...
...eyes of one after another, introduces a mass of realistic detail. The first of three novels dealing with the wild Fury clan, The Furys begins with the sort of situation on which most novels end. is distinguished by its sustained intensity, its brilliant characterization of Mrs. Fury, its brisk, unadorned, effective prose style, its few powerful, panoramic scenes of violence and disorder during the strike. Although readers may be repelled by the detachment of James Hanley's writing-so chill it sometimes seems close to scorn-may dislike the general meanness that marks his minor figures, they are likely...
Having survived Gatti's long regime at the Metropolitan, Maman Savage began to wonder what would become of her under brisk new Director Edward Johnson. In line with a policy of bringing pretty faces and slim figures into the old opera house, Director Johnson lately started weeding oldsters out of the chorus, putting some of them on pensions. Last week, however, "the world's oldest chorus girl" had official assurances that she was too much of a fixture at the Metropolitan to be dropped now, would be kept on at least for another season regardless...
Five million tons of rain fell on Atlantic City, the Weather Bureau calculated, the first day that the American and Canadian Medical Associations met there last week in joint convention. Thereafter the weather was clear and brisk, and the doctors, looking prosperous and vigorous, buckled down to the convention business of protecting their profession from laymen, of protecting laymen from quacks, of learning many a fact about disease. Some 300 men reported their last year's research. Dr. Emanuel Libman delivered the Billings Lecture (TIME, June 10). Study of 236 scientific and 225 commercial exhibits absorbed all the doctors...