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...INTELLIGENT INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY-P. W. Bridgman-Macmillan ($2.50). RETREAT FROM REASON-Lancelot T. Hogben-Random House ($1). By the centenary of his birth (1938), predicted Historian Henry Adams, science would have built "a world that sensitive and timid natures could regard without a shudder." But in 1938 science's millennium is still to seek. Shuddering harder than ever, many a modern now says science is a phoney...
...contribution and adds 5%, for administrative expenses. Some $10,000.000 of Federal money has poured into Oklahoma since the State got its program going in July 1936. When Oklahoma's indigent old reached the impressive total of 68,000 the Social Security Board began to investigate. A random check of the rolls in 46 of the State's 77 counties disclosed that $685,000 of the assistance money had gone to ineligibles, indicated that a complete State check would raise the total to $3,000,000. At this point the Board's Director Arthur Altmeyer summoned...
...told in the personal, random style of a farmer's almanac. Animal husbandry alternates with tributes to his wife; poetic fervor ("you want to sing, dance, yell, get drunk, and pray") is mixed with the technique of shearing; observations on the sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...
...UNVANQUISHED-William Faulk- ner-Random House...
...GREAT LORD - Paul Frischauer - Random House...