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...high that many Senators felt a little difficulty in breathing. Crowded galleries, hoping for an old-fashioned quick-&-dirty scrap, with plenty of rabbit punches and hitting in the clinches, were disappointed. The Senate wrapped the toga of dignity and dullness about its collective paunch, and gamely strove for classic words...
Runaways. Huckleberry Finn was one of the classic child runaways of literature, but he was not typical; in fact, he was a wholly fantastic creation. But he was no subject for a psychiatrist. Cheerful, resourceful and self-reliant beyond his years, he ran away to escape his drunken father, from whom he wanted nothing. Ortho-psychiatrists say that real runaways make off because they want something they don't get-attention, reassurance, or peace between parents-or as a heroic adventure to compensate for feeling inferior...
...sessions in prison, back in 1934-35, Nehru wrote his autobiography. Published in England, it became a sort of classic among liberal Englishmen, has run through 14 printings. Somewhat revised now for U. S. readers, and brought nearly up to date (August 1940), it seems unlikely that it will reach any such status here; much of its political history is a little too remote from U. S. interest. But as a self-portrait of a great and selfless man, and as an intimate if less complete portrait of a great incipient nation, it has, for any reader anywhere, unique power...
...four dissenting justices joined in what many believe to be the greatest dissent written by the greatest dissenter, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the enormous cavalry mustaches and classic wit. The dissent said in part: ". . . The Act [Child Labor] does not meddle with anything belonging to the States. They may regulate their internal affairs and their domestic commerce as they like. But when they seek to send their products across the State line they are no longer within their rights. ... At her boundaries the State encounters the public policy of the United States which it is for Congress to express...
...series of trips between the land of the beaver and the London lolly pops of the curt of Charles II-with enough of the former to make the show worthwhile. Hudson's Boy, John Sutton, finds Canada hard to handle, but Gene Tierney is a pushover for anybody. Several classic fisty scenes and some robust humor heavily handed out by Radisson's clum, Gooseberry, cover this necessary Valentine-exchanging well enough. You come out onto Washington Street with an almost insuppressible desire to pat everybody on the back and tell them what a beautiful world it is after...