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...rolls during 1937 average pay was $890 a year. Also last week, the House Ways & Means Committee published the names and salaries of some 50,000 wage earners who brought up that average by drawing $15,000 or more from their employers during 1937. It was the longest list the Committee has released since the practice was instituted in 1936. It was also the last of its kind, since the 1938 tax bill upped the publicity requirement to exclude salaries under $75,000-a-year...
...Grapes of Wrath is the Oakies' saga. It is John Ernst Steinbeck's longest novel (619 pages) and more ambitious than all his others combined (Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, et al.). The publishers believe it is "perhaps the greatest modern American novel, perhaps the greatest single creative work this country has ever produced." It is not. But it is Steinbeck's best novel, i.e., his toughest and tenderest, his roughest written and most mellifluous, his most realistic and, in its ending, his most melodramatic, his angriest and most idyllic. It is "great...
...Longest and most heated debate developed over foreign policy when a small group of isolationists unsuccessfully attempted to defeat a committee report urging economic cooperation with the non-aggressors...
Other criteria of emotion in Dr. Hall's rats were refusal to eat, refusal to move about. They were placed in the enclosure for two minutes a day, day after day. In general the emotional rats manifested uneasiness longest, started eating latest. The psychologist bred emotional males to emotional females, unemotional males to unemotional females. He thus obtained two second generations, one of which was seven times more emotional than the other. Conclusion: "Differences in emotionality appear to be genetically determined...
...National Academy of Design, where he went for two-and-a-half years when young, purely to stall off a career, Artist Steig got all his fun playing football in the back yard. The dead hand of the academy certainly guided none of his carving. Longest job was the woeful Guitarist-two weeks; shortest was the Sequinned Lady-two days. School Girl is a bit African around the eyes, but Man at a Gathering is straight Steig. In general he wanted to make figures that would not "seem out of place in the cabbage fumes of apartment houses." Last week...