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...What an inferiority complex I have now. I find that the only area I measure up to at all is the fact that I do carry six keys. I realize, of course, that all distributions must have extremes at both ends, but I certainly would consider it nice just to be a 'typical TIME-reading...
...Havana, Ernest Hemingway was interviewed by Prensa Libre, which at last revealed the subject of the novel Hemingway has been writing at the past six years. "It'll be about the earth, the air, and the sea." Added Prensa Libre: "Hemingway is a complex figure without precedent. Quite a few regard him as the reincarnation of Benvenuto Cellini...
...Indian-born physiologist and biochemist, director of research for the Lederle Laboratories (American Cyanamid Co.); in Pearl River, N.Y. As a Harvard graduate student, he pioneered in studies on muscular contraction, after going to Lederle concentrated on folic acid (part of the vitamin-B complex), helped develop its derivatives, teropterin and aminopterin (now being used to fight cancer), directed research that produced the new antibiotic, aureomycin (a cure for serious infections untouched by penicillin or streptomycin...
...them close to their support level. Though grain prices, on an average, are still three times those of prewar, the Government is required to stabilize them at that high level by grain buying and loans to farmers. Moreover, as industrial prices rise the support level will rise too: the complex parity formula ties farm-support prices to industrial prices. In effect, the Government may soon be required to force up grain prices from their present levels...
...human love as a sweet, evanescent sickness that briefly drives its victim to feverish pitches of feeling and then leaves him sated and bored; his fascination with the workings of human memory, which he saw as a treacherous filter distorting the qualities and meanings of past experience; and his complex attitude to high society, which delighted his snobbishness and shocked his moral feelings...