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...twisted caption. TIME accepts rebuke. But Reader Thomas guesses wrong. The three in the picture were (right to left): Sidney Blackmer, Actress Claudia Dell...
...hockey, the right play sometimes has the wrong result. With Goodfellow in the penalty box. Chicago's Manager Tommy Gorman sent a new forward line on the ice. Detroit, handicapped by one less man than their opponents, had no one to cover Chicago's small right wing, Harold March. Chicago's Romnes got the puck in mid-ice, passed to March. March turned in from the sideboards, whisked past the Detroit goaltender a waist-high shot that ended the game, 1-to-0, the series...
...rest like so many painted thumbnails: Three daredevil neurotics with a condemned airplane, no licenses, tour country towns putting on a crazily dangerous show for a living. A Southern officer and his Negro servant, on their way home from the Civil War, stop for the night at the wrong Tennessee mountain cabin...
...cracking is done with infinite discretion, and a fine understanding of psychology as she blows in the lower IQ brackets." But the necessities of an extended argument weigh heavily on Paragrapher Mencken's pen; much of the fire has gone out of his bluster. Treatise on Right & Wrong is written tiredly, its Menckenian tricksiness a little dingy from much wear. Carelessness sometimes trips him into such howlers as this: "Nero, as Tacitus tells us, illuminated his gardens at night by clothing them in shirts impregnated with pitch and then setting fire to them...
TREATISE ON RIGHT & WRONG-H. L. Mencken-Knopf ($3). Not many years ago Henry Louis Mencken was the god of U. S. liberal undergraduates, his lightest obiter dicta the unquestioned orders of their day. With a new. generation his authority has waned until now he appears an old-fashioned orthodox heretic. The men-of-straw he buffeted to the yelling delight of his admirers have by this time had such a bludgeoning that they look more like scarecrows than opponents. But he still goes on pounding the stuffing out of bogeymen that once seemed giants. Treatise on Right & Wrong...