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TIME, having decided on a "Man of the Year," hereby closes nominations. The five leaders in the reader-poll: Benito Mussolini, Harry L. Hopkins, Huey Long, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair...
...subjects not text-book gods but living men who were great because they saw and recorded. Especially note wentily is Dr. Haggard's all too brief section on primitive societies and the status of medicine therein. The book is devoid of technicalities which might disturb the lay reader it is written in an animated and vigorous style which is not without its humorous touches. If will be of especial interest to those who anticipate entrance into the profession but it has much to offer anybody interested in the development of man and his most vital institutions...
...Reader, John H. Hammond '37; Jim Bent Ernest A. Gray Jr. '37; Kane, Danbar Holmes '35; Mrs Schultz John H. Having '36; The Girl Robert S. Brookings 2d. '35; First Parsner, William Shelmerdine, Jr. '37; Second Pursuer William B. Bersscubrugge...
...Roberts (Double day, Doran, $2.50). A salty sea and smashing romance p r o v i d e the interest in this thriller, built with the War of 1812 as a background. A Maine skipper abandons the ordinary life of the "old salt" and turns privateer to provide the reader with high adventure. The routine of his new business is not routine for the reader, however, and Writer Roberts h a s avoided even the slightest possibility of your experiencing a dull moment...
...ordinary U. S. reader, "Armenian" suggests Levantine rug-dealers, massacres, Michael Arlen. But last week Author Franz Werfel gave the word a new and heroic significance. In The Forty Days of Musa Dagh he recited an Armenian epic founded on an actual incident of the World War. Humanizing one more bloody no-man's-land, this 817-page novel immediately takes its place, with All Quiet on the Western Front and The Case of Sergeant Grischa, as one of the War's big books...