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...Cleveland. Conductor Nikolai Sokoloy, recipient of high praise as visiting conductor in Manhattan's summer Stadium concerts, led the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra in a brilliant opening of the current season. Tall, dark, magnetic, he gave careful, rhythmic reading to Bach's Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue; continued with Brahms's First Symphony, in a full-throated interpretation; was clever, cacophonous, to suit Strauss's Don Juan; ended with his now familiar spellbinding performance of Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun. Again the city congratulated itself on the musicianly foresight and executive powers of Adella Prentiss Hughes, first U. S. woman organizer...
Rabbits had been used for the tests on animal tissue. A tenth of a second's exposure for a patch of ear-skin had made the patch lose its hair and turn dark. Not for seven weeks did hair reap, pear. Another patch was exposed for a second. A scab formed in a few days, fell off taking the hair with it-and in two weeks a growth of new hair, white instead of grey and thrice as profuse as previously, sprouted...
...study with their telescopes, Mars has for centuries excited speculation as to whether or not it is inhabited, speculation which had lately given way to the practical certainty that it has no animal life but may have vegetation. Prime objects of scrutiny were to be the dark streaks which some hold to be canals, some to be forests; and the polar caps, which may be either ice or optical illusions caused by the 100-mile-thick Martian atmosphere...
...literature, Anne Parrish's Victor Campion (The Perennial Bachelor) and Sherwood Anderson's Fred Grey (Dark Laughter) are proclaimed the best recent examples of "that cruel maldevelopment." Childhood's innocence is not scorned. The doctor appraises it warmly in the writings of A. A Milne, Henry James, James Barrie, Daisy Ashford, Nathalia Crane. His sterner brief is simply against those qualities in children which, smothering innocence, are most often carried beyond puberty-meanness, stupidity, intolerance...
Behind his hectic official acts, Sam lives a private life. His gracious but abstracted, unaccountable wife drives into a ditch and dies, leaving him more than ever dependent on Delphine, a mistress of effulgent dark beauty whose simple devotion he is continually driven to suspect by his millionaire's obsession with "the underlying motive." A weak heart does not add to his joy in their relation, and in her the War had developed a vein of melancholia. Yet they have happy moments together. She is a refuge from the thoughts with which he paces the Embankment; from the ignominy...