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...Malley's copy, his mock autobituary is fanciful. Born in Pittston, Pa., he belonged to a family far from obscure. Of his four brothers, all dead. Joseph, John and Austin were physicians. Brother Austin, eight years Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame University, gained fame as a scientist and oculist. Also he was a Latin scholar, conducted voluminous correspondence with Popes Leo XIII and Benedict XV. Brother William was a naval captain. Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell down a shaft and was killed...
...learned institutions which wanted to entice him from Vienna. None won until this summer. Next week Dr. Adler begins teaching students of Long Island College of Medicine medical psychology. The appointment runs for five years, and puts a big I on Long Island. For Dr. Alfred Adler is the scientist...
...toast civilizations to a crisp. He tortures the scientist and his family to learn the secret of its operation. Chandu monotonously rescues them from his clutches to which they monotonously return. Using his knack of turning rifles into snakes, turning gold pieces into toads, stiffening ropes upright in air, passing through solid walls, getting out of coffins at the bottom of the Nile, and abrogating strict Yoga discipline long enough to fall in love with an Egyptian princess, Chandu should reasonably have solved the situation and ended the picture in three minutes. The origin of his power is given...
...Kamongo" Mr. Smith takes us on a scientific adventure into the great universe and from there into the world of the unknown. It is semi-fictional in form. Two men on a ship in the sweltering heat of the tropics get into conversation. One is a young scientist returning to Africa to continue his exploration, the other an Anglican missionary going back to his jungle parish. As often happens they talk about their careers; and the scientist, a bit embarrassed at talking so much, tells of his search for Kamongo, the lung fish, who, when the dry season domes along...
...scientist enlarges from the slow of this strange freak of Evolution to the consideration of Evolution as a whole and of life itself. And prodded by the other's worried questioning, he tells his theory of the cause of Evolution, that it was purely a series of accidents things and developments that just happened. But the priest doesn't find this solution satisfactory, it does not tie up with his belief in a personal God and a great purpose behind life. Finally the scientist is led on to define his won theory of vital forces, which he conceives as whirlpools...