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...devours hardboiled capitalists with the same appetite and relish as once upon a time the ogre Minotaurus in Crete devoured luscious Greek maidens-a person who, in addition, is so vulgar as to oppose every war, except the inevitable one with his own wife? "Give heed, therefore, to the sage patriotic dear ladies and remember that the capitol of mighty Rome was at one time saved by the cackling of her faithful geese." When he went to the U. S. consulate in Berlin for his visa, Dr. Einstein's tone changed after answering several questions. "I am not going...
...Carnegie Corporation, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Milbank Memorial Fund, New York Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Julius Rosenwald Fund, Russell Sage Foundation, Twentieth Century Fund, Social Science Research Council, Vermont Commission on County Life. *Including "$125,000,000 . . . spent for the services of osteopaths, chiropractors, naturopaths and allied groups, and faith healers, and $360,000,000 for patent medicines. Much of the former sum and practically all of the latter are wasted...
...bargain store, succeeding Kenneth Collins who left to form his own agency (TIME. Nov. 14). A onetime reporter on his hometown paper (Grand Rapids News), Adman Hollister is famed for waggish japery, is head of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, an organization of former students of the crotchety Harvard sage. In 1927 he won Harvard's Bok Advertising Award for an R. H. Macy institutional campaign. For the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, in which he holds the position of "tibia plena," he designed the "diplomy...
...honors of the evening went neither to the Emperor or his satellites. Word had arrived that a great man from Germany was coming to do homage to the Emperor of the French. The sage of Weimar, who had sent Faust stalking through the halls of Europe, and through the imagination of his contemporaries, the man who had called France the fatherland of his genius, passed through the courts of the palace, and entered the presence of the Emperor. When he bowed in the doorway, Napoleon, first among those present to greet him, raised his arm and cried "voila un homme...
...found favor in the eyes of University Hall, and whether or not he will apply for, or be granted, academic standing is not alluded to in his message. Officials of the University news office, reached last night, admitted readily that I. F. Huey, sometime '35, the sage's son, is not enrolled among this year's undergraduates...