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It is nothing new, of course, for the Dramatic Club to be producing dramas, and yet it is a distinctly new and refreshing omen that the Dramatic Club has recovered from its psycho-neurotic obsession that has been tormenting us for at least the last two years. For these last...
Only 55 years ago great, meticulous Louis Pasteur (1822-95) began to realize that for every infectious disease there is a specific microorganism. That year chicken cholera was Pasteur's obsession. Dishes of the virus lay all around his Pans laboratory. Then, in the midst of his research he...
Man. To be a national sensation once more is felicity's zenith for Upton Sinclair, a fact which neither his enemies nor his friends have properly assayed. He is not a crackpot, but he is inordinately vain. He has not made a livelihood of scandalmongering; he has written because...
Mass production of a small, safe, cheap (about $700) plane has long been an obsession with Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce of the Department of Commerce. Year ago he urged the idea upon manufacturers, found them cold. Last May he took matters into his own...
He sponged on acquaintances in England, Scotland, Wales, often on the point of starving, making enemies, running up debts, a "haggard, shabby, shy, priestly-visaged individual" with a bitter tongue, a growing obsession that there was a conspiracy against him. Attracted by his esoteric learning, his writings, his often brilliant...