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...Once or twice every week, he makes believe that he is not President Coolidge, but Spokesman Coolidge. By this ingenious system, he can educate the citizenry through the press, explain the Administration policies, and never be committed to anything. President Coolidge is purported to be a silent man; but Spokesman Coolidge (with the aid of plentiful padding by newspaper correspondents) has become a garrulous soul. In fact, press despatches concerning him and his views have totalled 1,209,739 words in 62 days of his vacation...
...judge asked: "Do you think it was funny to murder a man?" "To tell the truth, Judge," said the boy, seriously, "I have lost my mental capacity to explain. . . . I don't want you to think, Judge, that I thought it was funny to kill this man. I thought it was funny for you to ask that question...
...been deducted from his entire July operating revenues of $25,561,510, he has remaining a net balance of $8,446,943. That is almost double the net operating income ($4,724,336) of July, 1925. This fact and the high earnings of the previous months of this year explain why, last week, Atchison stock was quoted on the Manhattan Stock Exchange at 155%. (On March 30, 1926, its price...
...book, A Bipolar Theory of Living Processes, just issued by Macmillan's ($5.00). His thesis is far from dogmatic. "We concede that our thesis has not been finally proven. Final proof is lacking regarding practically every point. We concede that the bipolar theory would fail to explain living processes if any other form of energy than electric energy could be proved to be adapted to construct and operate an organism which is identical with or analagous to that of the human organism...
...more specific, it is that one which can most readily be observed, the bacteriophage." The quotation is from a new book, The Bacteriophage and Its Behavior, by F. d'Herelle, M. D.* (Williams & Wilkins-$8.00). Dr. d'Herelle did not set out, as did Dr. Crile, to explain the nature of life or of death. His chief interest has been with diseases and their causes. He has dealt with what once was considered the lowest form of life- bacteria. He has ended by hypothesizing an even lower form, the protobe, which is neither animal nor vegetable,-simply something...