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When a pure-hearted scientist meets a phenomenon which he cannot explain, he humbly admits his ignorance, asserts his hope that future Science may be able to explain all things. But many a scientist of high standing and great ability is quick to discredit what he cannot explain...
...Tiffany Thayer, Harry Leon Wilson), formed a Fortean Society to create wider interest in the work of Charles Fort, author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands (out of print), Lo! (Claude Kendall, Publisher). For 26 years Author Fort has collected phenomena which Science has been unable to explain. He & his friends believe that modern knowledge must be freed of the prejudices of Science...
...note that on p. 2 of TIME for Dec. 22 that Knute Rockne, the famous football coach, was converted to Catholicism some four years ago. We are enclosing a clipping from p. 20 of the Pathfinder for Jan. 3, which states that Rockne is a Protestant. Will you please explain the discrepancy between these two answers to the same question? . . . ALICE W. HICKMAN Sioux City, Iowa Knute Kenneth Rockne became a Roman Catholic...
...minded on other proposals. The White House endeavor to make President Hoover seem less Dry was carried further when Secretary Walter Newton assembled newsmen and solemnly explained?anonymously?that the President had been "misrepresented," that the door was not closed to other Wet ideas. Joining in the effort to "explain" the President's position was his good friend, Journalist Mark Sullivan, who wrote this asininity: "A [President] cannot well be in a position of enforcing an existing law with one hand while with the other hand he gives public consideration to a change...
Elder Statesman Elihu Root, now almost 86. marched in his fur-collared overcoat into a Senate committee room one morning last week and took a solitary seat at the end of a long table. He had come to explain to the Foreign Relations Committee his formula whereby the U. S. could join the World Court. But the Committee kept Mr. Root waiting 30 minutes. Behind him rose the loud chatter of peace-loving women who packed the room. Mr. Root ran his fingers impatiently over his short grey mustache...