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Last month Professor Rugg, looking harassed and unhappy, rose before summer students at Teachers College, denounced "witch hunting." Cried he: "Those who say that we don't believe in private enterprise lie!" Meanwhile Professor Rugg's publishers, Ginn & Co., announced that fall orders for Rugg books were bigger this year than last...
...bring back any other useful drugs from the Indian pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best parts of his somewhat flamboyantly written book (Sample: "The days streaked by like frightened parrots") report how the searcher succeeded, how he won the confidence of the suspicious brujos (witch men), how he learned the secret ingredients, the magic ritual and recipe for mixing and brewing curare...
Curare's ingredients are still the secret of Medicine Man Gill, a handful of scientists and a jungleful of witch doctors. Others will have to be satisfied with the poetry of the translated Indian names of the plants that yield the poison - the thick-gold-stick; the toucan-tongue; the vine-which-is-like-a-frog; the magic-stick- that-grows-beside-big-waters; roots from the plant-which-talks-in-the-wind...
University of Wisconsin's President Clarence Dykstra: "We are appropriating billions for armaments to defend the American system and millions to train skilled workers and technicians. This will not create a national unity, nor will hysterical witch hunts. . . . One mobilization which we cannot neglect in our haste to prepare is the girding of our spiritual, moral and intellectual reserves...
...poet presented some of his less frequently delivered pieces, as well as such old favorites as "The Witch of Coos." A special selection was "The Death of the Hired Man," which he said had been inspired by "Piers Plowman." Also included were "Provide, Provide," "Spring Pools," "I Have Been Well Acquainted With The Night," "Paul's Wife," and several others...