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Author Hutchinson's own view of himself is brightened by the radiant fact that his books do sell, en masse. In this latest, he consumes 448 pages with a halting account of how, after the War, Simon Paris by an unspectacular miracle found "Christ the Common Denominator," and became an active (soapbox preaching) part of the Great Purpose. Nothing is made very clear, except that Simon's two brothers ("Old Niggs" and "Old Charles") were unhappy and he was kind to them. The wife of one was ravishing but gambled and fell ill with smallpox. The wife...
Capt. T. J. J. See, Government mathematician and astronomer at the Mare Island naval base (San Francisco, Cal.), has been conducting exhaustive experiments and computations upon-Nothing. Greater men than he have done the same, and he has been utilizing their findings - Sir Isaac Newton (gravity), Pierre Simon LaPlace (astronomy), Sir Christopher Wren (architecture). Nothing is important, for it permeates and envelops Everything. It would be nice to know definite things about it, what it is and does. Last week Capt. See announced something about Nothing...
...members of the Mission besides M. Caillaux as finally picked were ten: Senators Henry Berenger, Louis Dausset, M. Chapsal, Paul Dupuy* Deputies Lucien Lamoreux, Vincent Auriol, Maurice Bokanowski, Pierre de Chambrun† bankers Joseph Simon and Moreau-Neyret...
Finance Minister, Joseph Caillaux; rapporteur of the Senate Finance Committee, Henry Berenger; rapporteur of the Budget of the Chamber of Deputies, Lucien Lamoreux; Deputies, Maurice Bokanowski, Franklin-Bouillon, Vincent Auriol, Marques de Chambrun. The experts attached to the mission include Joseph Simon (Director of the Societe General, large Paris bank). Moreau Neyret (of the Ministry of Finance), Thion de Lachaume (Director of the Indo-Chinese Bank...
BARBER SHOP BALLADS-Edited by Sigmund Spaeth-Simon & Schuster ($2.00). That summer nights may be less hideous and rancid discords less frequently pollute the fine free atmosphere of club porches, tonsorial parlors, moonlight bays, locker rooms and shower baths, Singer Sigmund Spaeth 'and the Weber-and-Fields of the publishing-business present the first collection ever wilfully made of those maundering melodies Mandy Lee, Sivect Adeline, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, et al. There is a foreword by Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical...