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Wealthy ex-Smuggler Juan March (el Ultimo Pirato del Mediterráneo-also called el Yanqui), whose gold financed Francisco Franco's Fascist triumph over Republican Spain, once said of himself: "I can smell money." Now nearing 90, his nostrils are still sensitive. Last week they sensed a dismal future for the regime Juan March had helped to power...
Five years later Fosdick preached his first sermon in the new Riverside Church. In form it was an elaborate Neo-Gothic cathedral, niched with statues of Darwin, Einstein, Emerson, Buddha, Confucius. It cost some $4,000,000 (largely donated by the Rockefellers). Today Dr. Fosdick preaches from his marble pulpit on Sunday mornings, before a microphone in his 18th-floor tower study on Sunday afternoons. His voice is carried by national hookup to one of the nation's largest radio congregations. He preaches the same kind of rationalistic, enthusiastic sermons that he has occasionally preached in the chapels near...
...religious perceptions, useful as far as they go, are rudimentary. His prose ranges between brilliant neo-Menckenism and embarrassing vulgarity. Too often, when he intends to insult the reader's stupidity, he insults his intelligence instead. But Author Wylie's book might be of far greater importance than its own intrinsic worth if readers in any appreciable numbers would act seriously on his old and central recommendation-"know thyself"-as well as on a thing he fails to recommend-the study of those quieter, subtler, maturer diagnosticians who are casing the same field...
...active military service. At the same time, Yale announced that it had leased half its dormitories and a third of its classrooms to the Army Air Forces. After the Christmas recess, some 2,600 officers and men will crowd undergraduates out of many of the university's neo-Gothic houses. The Army will be packed double in the rooms of evacuated students, most of whom will squeeze in with classmates...
...Neo-Roman Roads. The Packards' second-front strategy, for which the rest of their book is sprawling, disorganized documentation, emanates less from the armchair than from the bouncing seats of cars on Mussolini's roads. To watch the Fascist empire at war, the Packards jolted over thousands of miles of Neo-Roman roads in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, North Africa and Italy...