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...usual, at this time of year, our correspondents overseas have been exchanging the season's greetings with us here at home and relating their plans for celebrating Christmas. From his post in poverty-stricken, overcrowded Shanghai, Bureau Chief William Gray cabled...
...relief. The American Red Cross appropriated $100,000 for "immediate stopgap aid," rushed disaster relief workers to the barren Navajo country. A Navajo Trail Relief Caravan Association gathered up food and clothing in California, started seven truckloads on the way to the reservation. Utah citizens helped too. Congress, conscience-stricken after neglectful years, voted a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Navajo and Hopi tribes...
...director of research, "until the legal problems are clarified, there will be great difficulty in carrying out large-scale experimentation." Dr. Suits's suggested remedy: a central organization patterned along the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission. With rainmaking control on a national scale, he thinks, a drought-stricken part of the country could be given real rain relief...
Yuletide food conservation reaches into every corner of the University today when bread and butter are stricken from all means and the Medical School pushes forward plans for a more far-reaching calory-saving program similar to that defeated recently in the College...
...others because they possess a "special nervous sensibility." This not only makes them extraordinarily receptive to inspiration, but the intervals between inspirations afflict them with a neurotic sense of "loneliness . . . failure and pathetic incompetence." When inspired, "almost all creative writers have at some moments of their lives been panic-stricken by the conviction that their imagination was getting the better of their reason. . . . The God visits them, not amicably, but in a flash of flame and fire." In Shakespeare's phrase: "Such tricks hath strong imagination...