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NIGHT BETWEEN THE RIVERS-R. L. Duffus-Macmillan ($2.50). What a one- night New York City general strike did to the cocktail party of a beautiful interior decorator; dubious political prophecy but pleasant enough melodrama about New York intellectuals...
...headaches remained over from fiscal 1937. Although Congress had been in session for six months prior to fiscal New Year's day, it had not succeeded in passing all the regular appropriation bills so that departments would have money to spend beginning July 1. With the War and Interior Departments supply bills still unpassed, the Senate quietly took a recess on fiscal New Year's eve. Result: on New Year's morning a "continuing resolution," allowing those Departments to continue spending for two weeks at the same rate as last year, was hurriedly adopted. Then in their...
Night and Day was issued as a weekly from freshly painted (cream interior, light-blue and black exterior) offices near London's Coliseum Theatre by the firm of Chatto & Windus under the editorial direction of five bright young men. Chief of these is John Hugo Edgar Marks, Borneo-born, Cambridge-educated, former film critic of the New Statesman and Nation. Biggest name among Night and Day contributors is Author Evelyn Waugh, as book critic...
...convention of the American Society for Testing Materials in Manhattan, Physicist E. V. Lange of Radium Chemical Co. demonstrated with a capsule containing one-tenth of a gram of radium. Gamma rays shooting out at a million or more volts passed through steel castings a foot thick, photographed the interior structure on X-ray films 10 by 12 in. in size. Tested by this method are steering posts of ships, turbines, valves, high-pressure steam pipes. Dr. Lange reported that in most Army and Navy purchases of heavy steel equipment, radium-testing is now required...
...smarter. Nevertheless it is a fact that the skull size of man in general has increased with progress up the evolutionary scale, and anthropologists are greatly interested in the normal range of variation in cranial capacity.* Present average is 1,450 cubic centimetres; but a person may have an interior head size several hundred cc. above or below that figure and still not be abnormal...