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...Senator duPont had only lately had his larynx removed. Senator Walsh's eyes were bothering him and, hearing he was to have teeth extracted, some people wished the teeth could be removed from his methods at the same time. Having conducted the Oil Inquiry, he now plans a Power Probe...
ROARING BONES-Prince William of Sweden-Button ($2.50). Prince William of Sweden has amused himself with journeys into the damp green mysteries of Africa, with elephant hunting, exploring and literature. His former opus, Among Pygmies and Gorillas, was an account of a zoological probe into the centre of the dark continent. This is a volume of short stories; love stories, African anecdotes, color stories about a chief who understood black magic, a leopard hunt, a march of wild phantoms through the jungle. The obvious comment upon princes, even Swedish princes, who write books is that laudatory insult reserved, also...
...laid to the fact that he is a stock broker, a Bostonian. One of the most pleasing of modern phenomena is that of the interest which business men, college professors, men from all the categories of current existence, have taken in the finer points of this attempt to probe the Sacco-Vanzetti case in search of the truth...
Doctors who dared no virtuosity in their professional practice showed last week at the Academy of Medicine, Manhattan, how they toyed as artists in their leisure hours. The hand that swabbed a tonsil also daubed a canvas. Lancet or engraving tool fitted equally well the hand of a surgeon; probe or mahlstick the hand of another physician. What paintings, etchings and statuary they had finished they brought to the Academy for the exhibit. Included in the list were...
...surgeon, white-robed and with immaculate gloves and instruments, must probe and lay bare the infections of the flesh, that it may be sterilized and heal. Recently, at the height of the Browning-Peaches orgy of pornography (TIME, Feb. 7), conscience-stricken editors tried hypocritically to explain that in probing into the sex life of a babbitt-Iecher they were acting as "surgeons to the public mind." The false hypocrisy of this excuse appeared, last week...