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...management, was in Bay Shore with his mother. Charles Victor Bob, missing mining promoter (TIME, Oct. 27), surrendered to the District Attorney of New York, related an Odyssey of wanderings which had taken him to Phoenix, Ariz., Los Angeles, Mexico City, by train, airplane and automobile in search of the Golden Fleece of new capital. Only when it was learned (last fortnight) that he was ready to surrender, was a warrant for his arrest actually issued. Criminal charges, civil suits, Federal prosecution face...
College no longer means a four year search for knowledge; it has become more nearly a social convention. President Hutchins in an attempt to restore to college education its former prestige has transformed the University of Chicago. He frankly admits that his plan is an experiment and that, like all experiments, time alone can prove its worth. But there are several elements of the idea that can eliminate the difficulties of the present system...
...Cake" is a satiric fantasy about the hectic search for happiness in modern life. It deals with a woman whose seven husbands have left her wealth, but who have prevented her from getting the means to gain the experience which she seeks in the far corners of the earth. The play has never been professionally produced, but was given some time ago by the Experimental Players in Pasadena, California...
...Indian culture educated him out of humor with Western civilization. "Very humbly and hopefully'' he went to Benares, holy city of the Hindus, there to sit at the feet of Theosophist Annie Besant, to see her youthful embryo-Messiah Krishnamurti. In between expeditions to Nautch girls and in search of a guru (teacher) he played polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid account of what it feels like to chase a boar, try to pin it with a lance-thrust. Says he: "In the open, the odds are against...
...Democratic stand on Prohibition did much to lift the party above their rather lack-lustre past for some years. The United States has been irked by the procrastination of the Republicans where this issue is concerned. The Democratic landslide was as much a search for remedies as an expression of public faith. The repeal of the Baby Volstead Act in Massachusetts may well cast its shadow on the national elections...