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Henry Holiday Timken Jr., Harvard senior, son of the roller bearing maker, took his first flight in a $70,000 Ford tri-motor plane, the gift of his father...
...aristocratic Edinburgh the news that "Jamie" will be sent this spring as Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland caused rich, old ladies to implore their Maker. They will have to address frumpy Mrs. Brown as "Your Grace...
...Past. The daughter of a Russian Jew buttonhole maker in Manhattan's lower East Side slums, Ruth Laeger, sexually precocious at 8, had been raped by a 55-year old grocer when she was 11. At 14 her mother took her into Children's Court for her continued relations with this man. She spent a year in a reformatory, left with a very bad behavior record. She worked as a department store salesgirl, was arrested for stealing merchandise, received a suspended sentence. Two months later she repeated her offense, went to prison. Released on parole, she consorted with...
Author Elliot Paul is advisory editor of transition and has dedicated his book to Her Upsettledness Gertrude Stein (famed maker of verbal crazy quilts); but he has written it in the good old-fashioned way. A native of Massachusetts, he is the author of a bill against censorship introduced in the State Legislature by Senator Henry Parkman Jr. last December. His other books: Indelible, Impromptu, Imperturbe, Low Run Tide, Lava Rock...
...very excellent method for eliminating students who are not as limited as the question-maker in their reaction to a generous subject. To produce failures by this process is to put a great indignity upon youth and start some very unnecessary and unfortunate revulsion's which will impair his strength in vital places and rob him of the whole value of what might have been highly nutritive. And there are enough specialists--people of linear dimension. Colleges should produce these only incidentally, and make more three dimensional people out of its pupils...