Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...teach courses in mathematics and logic, and not to expound his own personal ethics. With Professor Whitehead, one of the greatest logicians of our day, he has pushed far forward into the tortuous ways of logical analysis. A colorful, ruggedly independent thinker, prevented by his government from accepting a post proferred by Harvard, he was thrown into an English jail in 1918 as a conscientious objector. There he wrote his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, cutting new paths into unexplored realms. Characteristically, he studied Russian Communism on the spot. For some time he lectured at Peking University. Best known...
From the Denver Post: ROOSEVELT WANTS TO DICTATE PEACE AND BECOME PRESIDENT OF WORLD...
...American but post-Impressionist French were the canvases of agile, sensitive James Chapin up to 1924. Cézanne was his idol. That year he left Greenwich Village, took a walking trip in the hills of northern New Jersey. There he found a two-room log cabin, decided it would be a quiet place to paint. He rented it for $4 a month from the Marvins, a tightfisted, hard-working farm family...
...CAPTIVITY - Nevil Shute -Morrow ($2.50). Nevil Shute is a British aeronautical engineer who now holds an important post in the Air Ministry. His last novel, Ordeal, whisked readably through the harrowing experiences of a middle-class family during a raid on England by a thousand enemy bombers. Less exciting than Ordeal, Author Shute's An Old Captivity turns to a peacetime theme-the story of a British aviator who pilots an Oxford archaeologist and his daughter to Greenland in order to make aerial surveys of old Norse ruins. At his best in describing the flight itself, Author Shute complicates...
...Read in the Washington Post an article by his biographer, handsome Ernest K. Lindley, quoting point-blank un-Rooseveltian answers to point-blank political questions by a Democratic stalwart (supposedly South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes), who was fed to the gums with the Term III mystery. Mr. Roosevelt was interested to read that he had said flatly: he would not run again unless the Germans overrun England; that Cordell Hull is his choice for successor, is safe, can be elected; that the Vice Presidency lay between Bob Jackson, Paul McNutt, Burt Wheeler; that Jim Farley would...