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...accidental variations which happen to be favorable to the organism will be preserved by the survival of the fittest. Lamarckism is in general disrepute for the simple reason that evidence for it is scanty and dubious. The grosser physical aspects of it have long been disproved, notably by the classic experiment of Weismann who cut off the tails of generation after generation of mice without stopping the next generation from being born with full-length tails. But a few Lamarckists still insist that imponderables like acquired habits and tendencies can be inherited...
...impulse put Waldo Peirce on a cattle boat with his Harvard friend John Reed in 1911, and a later impulse sent him overside with a splash to swim back to Boston in what has become a classic change of heart. Huge, flat-nosed, bearded Painter Peirce. now 52, is still unpredictable though married for the third time and the father of twins. In Bangor, Me., last week he went out fishing while Manhattan's Midtown Galleries waited feverishly for new paintings to include in its "retrospective" exhibition of Peirces, to run through September...
...past to the present she has filled and destroyed three little books, has lost the desire to fill any more. As the fragments of Claude's reminiscences slowly piece together, her story emerges, at first as apparently inconsequential as the procession of days but proving to have the classic qualities of beginning, middle and fated...
...Brom frightens poor Ichabod with a pumpkin head and then reveals himself as a qualified pedagog (who is about to open his own school), is revealed as this radically modified classic concludes. Of more point in Bronxville, whose progressive educational system is famous, than on a national network is Brom's final song...
...Author Crow is proud to have brought out of hiding "the most beautiful leg the world has ever seen." As publisher of China's first manual on poker-playing, he not only turned out a tremendous bestseller, but had the deep satisfaction of restoring that game to the classic traditions obtaining when he played it in Fort Worth, Tex. 30 years ago, before decadence set in through the use of wild cards...