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Chief business done by the A. N. P. A.: passing a resolution against a five-day week for publishing personnel; a resolution that each member make his own decision regarding the proposed increased price of Canadian newsprint (TIME, Dec. 23). Discussions: on the competition of radio as a medium of dispensing news; on the evils of censorship laws. Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times was made President of the Association...
...Author. William Somerset Maugham, 56, married (to Syrie, daugher of the late Dr. Barnardo, famed founder of homes for waifs), studied to be a doctor, instead traveled, took notes, observed, wrote. Medium-sized, mustached, with fat stomach, square jaw, Author Maugham lives at Cap Ferrat, France, but travels whenever, wherever, he wishes. During the War he served in the intelligence service, British Army; was stationed in Russia, where bad, meagre food made him ill. Critic Hannen Swaffer once wrote Author Maugham asking him how to pronounce his name. Replied Maugham: "My name rhymes with waugham, as in 'a waugham...
...announced that he had isolated the leprosy bacillus, developed a serum. One problem which has always confronted scientists attempting to isolate the bacillus has been a means of keeping it alive once it was removed from the human body. Dr. Dostal's success lay in developing a culture medium. Another difficulty: animals not being susceptible to leprosy, it is necessary to experiment with humans...
Under the new tariff a hefty Packard will pay $1,230 (a comparatively trifling increase) but a Buick of nearly the same heft will pay $1,189 (an increase of 75%: a crushing discrimination against Buick or "medium priced" cars...
...course the French Government is not discriminating against U. S. medium-priced cars because of any special hostility toward their makers but to protect French motor-makers who are concentrating more and more on this type...