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Waldo Frank, 47, is an inverted Theodore Dreiser, a modern transcendentalist, a mystical Marxist. He is also, at times and in spots, a forceful novelist. Combining passion and penetration with plodding Joycean prose and purblind bookishness, he is a perfect layer cake of the admirable and the irritating...
...University ought not to overlook any chance of turning them into instructors or tutors. The latest proposed extension of the Plan cannot promise a more practical approach to the stimulation of interest in American history and literature unless the Counselors are as available as possible for the student purblind to his America...
Even with the entrance upon the scene of an enthusiastic and sympathetic female, purblind to college traditions and feuds, the tension was unrelieved. Crossing Dillon Field, Cousin Arthur espied the red jerseys of Crimson players. "Rather conservative up here, aren't you?" he asked Uncle Henry. The West Virginia lass said: "Why, I would say red was a very bright color and quite pretty, wouldn't you?" Cousin Arthur stared a little closer at the picture of Captain Frank in the H.A.A. News. Suddenly the Vagabond conceived a way to quiet three birds with one slap. "Pardon me," he said...
...eyes. Dr. Josephson reasoned, probably because the patient's adrenals supply too little cortin. He bought some cortin at a drugstore, injected it into the muscles of glaucomatous patients. Usually within half an hour eye pressure dropped to normal, tension and pain in the eyeballs ceased and many purblind patients could see clearly for the first time in years. Pursuing a hypothesis, Dr. Josephson gave cortin to nearsighted children. In most cases their vision also promptly improved. That must mean, he decided, that myopia and glaucoma are due to the same thing...
...Siamese are a gentle people. Like the rest of the world they have their political difficulties, but nobody ever gets shot. The first of recent Siamese crises occurred a year ago when a bloodless revolution shook dozens of intelligent, inbred Siamese princes out of soft government jobs but left purblind little King Prajadhipok a constitutional monarch. Next Siamese crisis occurred last April when King Prajadhipok suddenly grew nervous at the increasing "Communism" of his first Cabinet, fired the lot of them. "Premier" Laung Pravit left hastily for France and a group of staid conservatives took his place. Again there were...