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...allowed to revel in Popular Mechanics and the Radio Digest, should have thrust into his hands a magazine which explained his sex impulses with the commonplaceness of a mechanic expounding the ignition of a Ford? Would the result be completely good? Can the little boy who is a "radio bug"± be assumed to grow up quite naturally into an adolescent "sex bug," equally without necessity of shame? An attempt was made to answer these questions in the affirmative by a new publication, Your Body, which appeared on the news stands last week, price...
Over the reader who flipped the pages of Your Body stole the conviction that some "radio bug" must have conceived it and dictated its format. The suspicion appeared well-grounded. Though several of the contributors are M.D.'s, the president of the concern which publishes Your Body is Hugo Gernsback. Even before the days of "radio," his Electrical Experimenter was a magazine which catered to the "electrical bugs" who were the forerunners of the "radio bugs...
...hidden his orchestra in gloom (TIME, Oct. 18). But he had placed himself under a refulgent yellow spotlight. The latter, he explained, was a necessary evil. A conductor must be seen by his men. Unkind critics said that Dr. Stokowski had been bitten by the David Belasco show-off bug. The kindest ones declared that by making himself a cynosure, Dr. Stokowski had spoiled his hoped-for effect...
...Among the reports I have read so far, the general scholastic bug bear for Freshmen seems to be the History, I course. The advisors almost unanimously state that their proteges are nervous about the unfamiliar nature of the history work...
Where I come from, and all Southern Ohio, Fords are called "road lice." Now, if a "louse" is not a "bug," I wish that someone would kindly tell me what...