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Sitting in his convalescent home at Asheville, N. C., ailing Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. fiddles familiarly with the switches of a radio receiver. As he fiddled one day this week a grin of satisfaction crossed his face. He had heard a code message from the Los Angeles headquarters of his company-Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., of which he is chief radio engineer (TIME, July 14)-travel across the U. S., relayed through 20 ground stations to the line's New York office. His company's nation-wide network, largest operated by any single airway system...
...girls, 50 of whom were still in the institution, had been induced to plead guilty to charges without a hearing, a direct violation of the Criminal Code which provides that a wayward minor can be committed only ''by competent evidence upon a hearing." Last week Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's only action in face of innumerable scandals was to consider a blanket pardon for all those jailed because magistrates had ignored...
...Criminal Code (Columbia). Aside from its high value as entertainment, this is a significant picture because it is in every way better than the Manhattan stage hit, acclaimed by critics, from which it is taken. It will also provide, for those who saw the play last year, illustration of the differences between theatrical and cinema technique when each is properly handled. On the stage The Criminal Code was a parable. The misfortunes heaped on the protagonist?a boy who learns in prison how to be a criminal? were fashioned to provide a lesson. As a cinema, the realism of scenes...
...which could not value circulation more loved it not honor less, has decided to run the story of Nancy Voorhees, who was acquitted 20 years prior for murdering a man who tried to abandon her. As managing editor, it is the task of terse, authoritative Arthur Byron (The Criminal Code; One, Two, Three!) to have Nancy Voorhees sought out, to find what has happened to her. to point an unctuous moral for his readers. It so happens that news of the story breaks on the day that Nancy's pretty but illegitimate daughter is to be married. Griefstricken, Nancy...
Homage Volume. There is a code of ethics for a homage volume like Cancer. "The dedicatee should be recognized as an international leader in his field of research. He should be an eminent trainer of scholars, as well as himself an eminent scholar. . . ." By emphasizing the teacher a homage book differs from the Nobel prize in Medicine, which emphasizes the discoverer of medical fundamentals. Professor Ewing is of course both...