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...Chaos", while centering on four or five leading characters, is a series of random shots, quotations, glimpses of the life conditions of the different classes, and brief accounts of various difficulties of the new program. While often disjointed and confusing it gives a wealth of intimate detail and ancedetal background. The story is not propaganda although it employs the pattern of a five-year plan epic and tires unsuccessfully to show how the new motivations of communism will replace the material motives of capitalism. The story is neither novel or text-book but has its value in its, wide scene...
...stress is being laid on concentrating small funds into a few large ones. This is like putting all one's eggs in one basket. It would be well enough if anyone could devise an even reasonably satisfactory system of selection. But when a few men are chosen at intellectual random while other of almost equal merit are shut out entirely, the chances of mistakes in choice are overwhelmingly great...
Several small rolls of paper were placed in a bowl. At random the secretarial hand picked out two rolls, disclosed two numbers, 8 and 2. Then Mr. Morgenthau signed a formal notice calling two more series of the 4th Liberties, all those which end with 8 or 2, for payment on Oct. 15, giving six months notice as required. The new bond call is for about $1,200,000.000, or an additional 20% of the amount outstanding last autumn. When these called bonds are paid off or converted, 45% of the 4th Liberties will have been retired...
...jacket), I Went to Pit College paints an authentic, unforgettable picture. To have taken a postgraduate course at "Pit College" is no mean feat in itself; on the strength of her masterly thesis Authoress Gilfillan has graduated magna cum laude. The mining town she picked, more or less at random, was a huddle of shacks she calls "Avelonia," about 35 miles from Pittsburgh. Under cover of darkness she arrived in a hired car, knocked at a house that looked less dilapidated than most and asked to be put up for the night. Next morning she donned a disguise...
...when the first edition of Ulysses was published in Paris, hundreds of U. S. citizens have smuggled copies through the customs or bought them from bookleggers. But this week, on the strength of Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey's decision that Ulysses is not obscene (TIME, Dec. 18), Random House was able to publish the first edition of the book ever legally printed in any English-speaking country...