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...describes events preceding by 20 years his recording of them. But it takes a typically Victorian literary license to account for the difference between the groping timidities of Albert Grope and the caustic, scrupulous and sometimes slightly patronizing style of his more mature meditations. There are moments when Author Mann allows his hero's manner to become a little coy; but reverence for life, rather than a sly familiarity with its absurdities, makes itself felt on some of his 576 pages...
What becomes of youngsters convicted under the Mann Act for their interstate sex experiments, of prankish urchins who break open a freight car or filch stamps from a rural post office...
...exalted minds was the low state of Poetry. The Assembly looked more like a publisher's tea than a political assembly. Present as members of the new League Committee on Arts & Letters were: Poet Laureate John Masefield of England, French Academician Paul Valery, German Nobleman Thomas Mann, Italy's Ugo Ojetti, Norway's Nina Roll-Anker. Professor Gilbert Murray (Oxford English Dictionary) was there in his capacity as President of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation. The delegates spent most of their time rushing about with fountain pens in their hands autographing each others' books...
...Manhattan Dr. Edward L. Mann appealed for a health education campaign among the foreign-born, cited his own knowledge of a case in which a mother attempted to cure her infant daughter of whooping cough by feeding her a live goldfish...
...Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church; Professor Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford College; Dean Henry Spencer Houghton of the University of Iowa College of Medicine; Dean Charles Phillips Emerson of the University of Indiana School of Medicine; President Arlo Ayres Brown of Drew University, Madison, N.J.; Dean Albert Russell Mann of New York State's College of Agriculture at Cornell University; Mr. & Mrs. Harper Sibley, rich religious leaders of Rochester, N. Y. † Last month Dr. Clarence True Wilson, publicly criticizing the personnel of the Wickersham Commission, characterized Commissioner Ada Comstock as "President of a woman's college...