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...there's the problem, too, for what of Babbitt, Moon Calf, Eric Dorn? Who can enjoy the mirrors of his mediocrity? Who can revel in the garbage of his prurience ? It is human nature, moralists to the contrary, to enjoy a good s duction with Tom Jones or Roderick Random. It is human nature to picture yourself a glorious Ivanhoe or a clever Pendennis. It is not human nature to imagine yourself a nobody Babbitt doing any no-account and nasty business in any Middle Western babbitt warren. There is no vanity in futility and filth...
...James Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League of Nations, is now in Poland to study the problem of the Danzig-Polish dispute. Indications that the League will take energetic action to end the trouble one way or another are not lacking...
Married. Sonja Claussen, daughter of Mme. Julia Claussen, Metropolitan Opera star, to Eric Harris Julian of Tuscumbia...
Patrick Geddes (no relation to Eric and Auckland) is one of the most versatile geniuses of modern times and is distinguished in several lines of scientific and social endeavor. He is 69 years old and first became famous as a biologist and authority on sex. He is the co-author of Sex and of Evolution (in the Home University Library) and of The Evolution of Sex with Professor J. Arthur Thomson, editor of the great four-volume Outline of Science...
Engaged. Sonja Claussen, daughter of Mme. Julia Claussen of the Metropolitan Opera Co., to Eric Harris Julian of Tuscumbia...