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...first 41 books have been notable for affable after-dinner humor, a slightly ponderous display of undergraduate learning, a unique brand of lecture-platform whimsy. His 42nd, The Trojan Horse, is a scrambled modernization of the tale of Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night clubs, pacifist demonstrations. In it Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance; Cressida is a modern young woman whose wisecracks seem not quite so up-to-date; Pandarus is a Wall Street sophisticate; the Horse is a symbol whose...
Into Buenos Aires last week dropped a "flying caravan" of four U. S. women representing the People's Mandate to End War. Led by Pacifist Elise Burton Musser, former Utah State Senator, the members of the flying junket-Mrs. Enoch Wesley Frost of Arkansas, Mrs. Ana del Pulgar de Burke of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Rebecca Hourwich Reyher of New York-left Hyde Park, N. Y. on October 30, with President Roosevelt's benediction, to exhort the Latin American nations into ratifying the Inter-American conference peace treaties (TIME...
...students. Even when the American Federation of Labor disowned it in 1928 as too "radical" and when five years later Director Abraham J. Muste left it because it was too '"conservative," Brookwood kept on. Young, broad-beamed Tucker P. Smith, a socialist and former executive secretary of the pacifist Committee on Militarism in Education, was brought in as director to restore harmony. He succeeded. By last year he was able to boast that Brookwood had some 30 students, had graduated 420 union executives, of whom, ''as you may well have guessed, three-fourths have been in jail...
...hero. Huxley attacked scientific Utopias, embraced a Lawrentian humanism, with a dash more intellect, a dash less sex. In Brave New World (1932) he knocked Utopia down for another count of ten. The hero of Eyeless in Gaza (TIME, July 13. 1936) turned out to be a thoroughgoing pacifist, with a philosophy combining features of Yogi, Buddhism, other Oriental mysteries. After this last novel, it looked as if Huxley, saved himself, was now ready to save the world...
...assignment to cover education, within a year shifted the city's newsorgans' attention from political squabbles to constructive achievements of the schools. This won him a job as public relations man for the Cleveland school system. He was the chief witness against Eugene Debs when that celebrated pacifist was tried for violation of the Espionage Act as a result of a speech made in Canton, Ohio, in 1918 and given a 20-year sentence. Later he regretted the outcome, tried to obtain Debs's release...