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W. C. Handy, 71-year-old Negro composer of the St. Louis Blues, vigorously scotched recent reports that his life story was about to be put on the stage. "Anyone presuming to dramatize my life without permission," he announced indignantly, "will be haunted to the full extent of the law...
At Harvard ink-stained young La Farge lost his nickname at last, was president of the highbrow Advocate and edited the lusty Lampoon. When he was 28 his first novel won the Pulitzer Prize. But the name "Bop" still haunted him. It was not until he was 36 that a...
Capacity for Greatness. Every nation is obsessed with one problem which is the measure of its capacity for greatness: Egypt with immortality; Greece with beauty; Rome with administration and law; France with rationalism; Germany with war; Britain with the freedom of the individual man. India, islanded by sea and land...
In 1934 he marked the turning point in his life with a carefully written, ambitious, disappointing novel about insanity, Tender Is the Night. By 1935, his body had begun to crack. He drank too much; he was dogged by insomnia; he drugged himself with Napoleonic dreams of military prowess and...
Even brilliant epileptics, however, are haunted by fear of fits in public, or of the severe injuries which fits may bring about. In the British Medical Journal Dr. Gerald Caplan suggests a possible way to banish their worries. His idea: to drain off the epileptic's excess electrical energy...