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House Beautiful. In Oklahoma City, Police Chief L. J. Hilbert hoped that his prisoners would "be more contented" as soon as he got that blinding red paint off the walls of the jail, replaced it with some creamy whites, restful greens and pastel blues...
Misery Loves Company. In Casper, Wyo., Hilbert LeRoy McCready made his getaway from a traffic smashup, but was nabbed when two convicts, watching from jail, reported his license number...
...apparently substantiates this by listing the books studied but, curiously enough, it omits the books read in the fourth year. The books are read chronologically, and the fourth year, which is devoted exclusively to "modern thinkers, modern science," includes among others: Voltaire, Marx, James, Freud, Faraday, Darwin, Russell & Whitehead, Hilbert, Gauss. I suspect that St. John's College is the only liberal arts college in America which requires of every student four years of laboratory science. It also requires four years of mathematics, four years of languages...
...Breslau, Max Born was the first son of Professor Gustav Born, University of Breslau anatomy professor famed for pioneer experiments in grafting tadpoles, and of Margarete Kauffmann Born, sprig of a solidly established family of industrial weavers. At Gottingen he drank the intoxicating elixir distilled by the distinguished mathematicians Hilbert, Klein & Minkowski, was only 22 when Einstein's Relativity turned the universe topsy-turvy. Four years later, a teacher of theoretical physics, he was plunging along the labyrinths opened up by the master (his mathematical treatises include an exposition of Einstein theory), but with many a nostalgic glance over...