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...whole and healthy a body has great need of a brain. The vast realm of modern commercial designing has a similar need. No candidates for this cortical job in the U. S. have appeared with sounder title to it than a half-dozen recent emigrants from Germany. Their common background: the famous Bauhaus (Building House), which had an incandescent pioneering success in Germany between 1919 and 1933. To show what this background was, Manhattan's rich, responsible Museum of Modern Art last week opened the first comprehensive show of Bauhaus work yet held...
Subject to a half-dozen contests and recounts for House seats and one Senate seat (Indiana), this was the precise measure of national Republican resurgence. Not one of 103 incumbent Republicans had failed to regain his seat. Of 25 former Republican incumbents who tried to come back. 14 succeeded, whereas of the House's 38 "Young Turks" (150% New Dealers), 14 were gone. Republican gains were made in 23 States outside of the ''too, too solid" South. In eight farm States their ains were 29 House seats, three Senate. In ten Eastern industrial States they were...
...mahout in the elephant stables of the Maharaja of Mysore, Sabu was picked by Director Robert Flaherty to play the lead in Elephant Boy two years ago. Now 15 and one of the half-dozen highest paid child stars in cinema, he goes to a boarding school at Beaconsfield, where he plays halfback on the second Rugby team, keeps a flat in London, where he lives with his brother, a tutor and three servants, drives himself about in a miniature car, often visits the London zoo, where he makes friends with the elephants and stables his mongoose, Rikki...
...London, meanwhile, living in exile in a rented house in St. John's Wood with his wife and children, the frail, 82-year-old Viennese inventor of psychoanalysis has become a concentration point for a half-dozen leading U. S. publishers, who are bidding for his incomplete next book. Sums bid have not been disclosed, but are called "tremendous," meaning, probably, somewhere between $10,000 and $25,000. That publishers are bidding on a good thing seems reasonably sure. Freud's work-in-progress is a psychological study of the Old Testament, with special emphasis on Moses...
...island shares something of the personality of that steadfast and enduring man. . . ." But this is only Gogarty's briefly stated conclusion. The main content of his tribute to the great Irish epic is an account of his pilgrimage in the legendary footsteps of the Saint. He investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies. But his principal guide into the 5th Century Celtic twilight was surviving local legend...