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...Henry Ford." He has little respect for Tycoon Ford, calls him "a typical specimen of the anti-cultural American." The Mob, says Critic Notch, is influenced by scientific discoveries, but its science is anachronistic. "The discarded scientific concepts of the last three centuries are on the grow. The scientist cannot stop them from growing because they are too easy, too plausible and too teachable. . . . [The Mob character] is a cockney character, self-confident, contemptuous and anti-cultural; it is very knowing and knows very little." But no yearner after yore is Critic Notch; he thinks the present age "most fascinating...
...cognac is a spirit, not a wine, and as Barthe pointed out, the internationally great French scientist Pasteur (inventor of milk pasteurization) said definitively: "Wine is the most healthy and hygienic ot beverages...
...fear has been controlling a present in which death is the only feasible probability. Influenced by airs less gracious than Prospero's-airs which Stephen Field describes, in loose poetry, as blowing from alien estates in time across those in which men live-each character imagines the eccentric scientist as a salient figure from the past. To Pat Farley he is the father of a girl he has loved in England. As a fur merchant he listens to Norman Rose defining a Jewish boy's life ambition. Tom Ames identifies the old man with a Catholic priest...
There is on record only one unfavorable remark by "Popsy" Welch about another human being. Years ago he was told of a highly disparaging remark made about his colleague Dr. Osler by a Continental scientist. A few years later Dr. Welch was asked to express an opinion about the detractor. For a long time he hesitated, then mumbled in a hesitating voice that he must be "a terrible person...
Kaye Don, British speedster who will try to break Segrave's world record, drove his 4,000 h. p. Sunbeam-Coatelen motored Silver Bullet 200 m. p. h. in a practice run at Daytona Beach. Samuel Edward Sheppard, 47, Assistant Director of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, a scientist so precise that he frequently lies prone to sight for his golf putts, last week received in Manhattan the gold medal which the late Chairman William Henry Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. created. In accepting, Dr. Sheppard, who often utters startling truths, declared that in many fields pure science...