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...Foreign News in TIME every week. I have gradually collected photographs of the heads of most of the countries of Europe. However I have not seen a picture of the president of Switzerland, 1931 President Meier, which I would like to have to complete my collection in my school notebook. I would appreciate it very much if you would publish his picture...
This syllabus of culture, or notebook of Durant, lists: ten Greatest Thinkers (Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin) ; ten Greatest Poets (Homer, Author of the Psalms, Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Lipo, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman); 100 Best Books for an education (approximate cost, $300; time required for reading: four years at seven hours per week, ten hours per volume). Syllabuster Durant reviews his favorite modern philosophers (Spengler, Keyserling, Bertrand Russell), his favorite modern literary lights (Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, John Cowper Powys), fills up the rest of his 426 pages with comments on his trips...
...covering the story for Popolo d'ltalia of Milan, of which he was then editor. I was manager of the Paris bureau and was covering it for the United Press. At that time Mussolini was practically unknown outside Italy. He scurried around with the rest of us with notebook and pencil, gathering items from Lloyd George, Briand and Lord Riddell. None of us paid him any attention. Certainly none could have foreseen that in a few years he would be one of the world's outstanding figures. He had already started organizing the Fascists, but little was known...
...rest of the book contains: three short stories, all readable, one Kiplingesque, one (about an intelligent madman) first-class; a notebook section with the first and last chapters of an autobiography of God; a three-act play of post-War morals and emotions, in which there are two suicides (one Lesbian, one oldfashioned hypocrite), one murder (of a homosexual husband), no arrests, and no solution in sight. Perhaps not meant to be acted, the play mulls over many an idea. Central theme: that the greatest calamity in history was not the late great War but an earlier, unperceived event, when...
...curiosity I mention relates to the lines on p. 27 in By the Way which were written in Arlington Cemetery, Washington when I was there in 1928 and I was standing by the National Tomb at the time. In my notebook above these lines I had written for reference ''Unknown Soldier, Arlington'' and never noticed until the other day that the initials of these three very significant words are just simply U. S. A. "Still a funny old Codger," I hear you say. Maybe...