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...Brisk Bob Hutchins did not leave his brilliant position as right-hand of Yale's President James Rowland Angell* and go to Chicago just to be feted as a boy wonder. He went to lead the way out of that mediocrity which critics have found to be the chief characteristic of U. S. "higher education." His reforms were radical. But they had barely begun when Depression came to smite down the income of all universities...
...Reacted with dominant Conservative cheers and impotent Laborite scowls when brisk, cheery Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced an abrupt shift in the emphasis of Britain's current naval building program from small cruisers to large...
Berlin's vast Sportpalast rumbled one night last week with a great gathering of the "German Christians," Nazi Wing of the Evangelical Church (TIME. June 12, et seq.). on deck to demand the super-Nazification of the Church. Their presiding officer was brisk, sleek, pomaded young Rev. Joachim Hossenfelder. Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg. Their prime hot-head was one Dr. Reinhold Krause. Meeting a few days after the 450th birthday of their Church's founder, Martin Luther, they proceeded to juggle ecclesiastical dynamite. According to Nazi Pastor Krause, German Protestantism needed a "second Reformation." He submitted three...
City editors of big metropolitan dailies have to be well informed. Few have their finger tips on a wider variety of facts about contemporary people and events than Stanley Walker, brisk little city editor of New York's potent Herald Tribune. Not content with doing a first-rate job at a desk that many a colleague has found exhausting, he somehow finds time to turn out book reviews, magazine articles, has now written a book, a timely newspaper-man's-eye-view of Manhattan under Prohibition. Says Star Reporter Alva Johnston, who writes the introduction: "Mr. Walker seeks...
...carnivorous beast smaller than themselves, some larger. In captivity they are clean, hardy, except for an occasional chirp almost noiseless. They need one meal a day, chiefly meat and fish. They like to swim but can do without it. Almost any country place where autumn weather is brisk will do for a mink farm...