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...Classics is among the leaders. Those who have discovered that the thought and the art of Greece and Rome are not antiquated but abiding, naturally are eager to explore its many relations to the history of mankind and to the world of today. There is no "querelle des anciens et des modernes" at Harvard. E. K. Rand...
Fletcher, Confucius, et...
...year after TVA's simmering, saintly Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan got himself fired for quarreling publicly with co-Directors Harcourt Morgan and David Lilienthal (TIME, March 14,1938, et seq.), a joint House & Senate committee which investigated his complaints that the TVA had been mismanaged last week produced three findings...
Last week a U. S. District Court in Philadelphia decided the case of Apex Hosiery Co. v. Branch i, American Federation of Hosiery Workers, William Leader et al. (TIME, March 27). The verdict: Branch i & its President Bill Leader would have to pay the well nigh impossible sum of $711,392.55 in recompense for damage done Apex's plant and business in a strike two years...
David Low at his most biting is gentlemanly compared to his cartooning forebears. Hogarth set the pace for English caricaturists in the 18th Century, and his followers, Rowlandson, Gillray, the Cruikshanks et al., set the pace for the French. In their work the age of the first three King Georges and the Regency appears unmatched in history for sheer beef-eating, blowzy, bullyragging license. Famous caricatures in the show included Isaac Cruikshank's credited Belly Piece Shop in which various court ladies of marked posterior inflation are being fitted to boot with anterior pads labeled one, two, four...