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...hotel cubicle for his yearly interview and for a day his long-standing fame flares again. People who all their lives have lived by means of the devices he has invented and inspired, people who have forgotten there were an Alessandro Volta, an André Marie Ampère, a Georg Simon Ohm in, a Charles Augustin de Coulomb, a Luigi Galvani or a James Watt, are reminded that there still is a Nikola Tesla (pronounced Tcshlah) who long ago rave them the Tesla induction motor which made alternating current practical, and the Tesla transformer which steps up oscillating currents to high...
...Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from this display of fireworks you may catch...
Jews in general were not disappointed by George V last week. Mr. Montague Burton, by birth a Polish Jew but today London's biggest merchant tailor, became "Sir Montague." The Jewish assistant Secretary of the General Post Office, Mr. Leon Simon, became ''Sir Leon." Others who received Birthday Honors last week were...
ADVENTURES IN GENIUS-Will Durant -Simon & Schuster...
...Significance. Not many philosophers have become popular in their own lifetime, in the sense that their writing has brought them much money. But Syllabuster Will Durant, ably backed by Popularizing Publishers Simon & Schuster, made a killing with his The Story of Philosophy. Critics scoffed at it, pointed out that the sum-total of philosophy could not be compressed or even adequately presented in one book or by one man. Readers bought over 500,000 copies, felt their culture increasing whether they read it or not. Adventures in Genius should suit the same public...