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...Schuster ($3.50). On the banks of the Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling well by which "the master" sat, and a stone table on which he is said to have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences (in 1909). But the Bishops of Buenos Aires, having heard of Rabelais' earthy humor, and having heard of the impious Anatole France, denounced them both. The pious dared not listen to the dean...
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who in his Arctic explorations often ate nothing but meat, last week completed in Manhattan a year's intensive meat-eating (no vegetables). Physicians of the Russell Sage Institute will report their findings in six months. Said Explorer Stefansson: "I feel perfectly fit, am wide awake, and am more aggressive. . . . I slept well and developed lots of brand new ideas. You know, I deal in ideas now?I have passed the stage where I have to carry them out." Explorer Stefansson...
Died. Capt. Luther Sage ("Yellowstone") Kelly, 79, famed Indian scout, foe of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, veteran of Alaska and the Philippines; in Paradise, Calif. Capt. Kelly willed that he be buried in Boot Hill Cemetery (Billings, Mont.), where lie some 40 rascals and heroes who died "with their boots...
...conferred with Washington's "Dry" Senator Jones, New Jersey's "Wet" Senator Edge. He induced them to withdraw their joint resolution, pending in Congress, calling for an investigation of prohibition enforcement. In place of Congressional action, Mr. Hoover intends to appoint, shortly after he enters office, a sage, non-partisan committee of perhaps nine or eleven persons to conduct a thorough enforcement inquiry report to Mr. Hoover...
...most debatable novelties in his early days with the Boston Symphony was Pacific 231, by Arthur Honegger, a young French Swiss. When Composer Honegger made his U. S. debut, last week, as conductor of his own works, his orchestra was Mr. Koussevitzky's. Turn about, one sage remarked in the lobby of the Cambridge Theatre, was fair play indeed in this case. Honegger won fame in the U. S. by the snorts and puffs of his giant locomotive. Fair enough, then, that Boston should see him first, hear his Rugby (TIME, Nov. 19) before he took...