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...Jacob, and Picasso. Sachs' devotion to these men amounts virtually to hero-worship--although he would probably be horrified at the word. And yet for the most part he is able to give fair estimates of their achievements. On Picasso, of whom he knows the least, he goes furthest wrong. After saying that Picasso's genius is so great that anything he may produce cannot be without value, an absurd supposition in reference to anyone, he compares him to Leonardo, and lapses into further unqualified superlatives. His discussion of Cocteau, on the other hand, is brilliant, and gives...
...your issue of Feb. 27, p. 21 under Science you refer to Capt. Bob Bartlett as the writer to the New York Times of the article mentioned. This TIME-all wrong...
...chronic experimenter, he has tried cross-breeding flowers, chickens, cattle, with no definite results. He thinks, weather forecasting is on a wrong scientific basis. He bought a 6-ft. telescope, set it up on the lawn of his Des Moines home, spent nights stargazing. When he started to work out his own weather theory he was stumped on calculus...
...storms than this one appeared to be. Besides, she was at sea, where an airship belongs; not overland, to be twisted apart by line squalls as was the Shenandoah, or beaten into a hillside, as was Britain's R-101. As for her radio, that could easily go wrong with the atmosphere supercharged with electricity. Not until next day did Lakehurst, and the rest of the world, know what good cause it had to worry...
...they was married a good half-hour before the baby come." Ma had to get the sheriff after Ella's Oscar, but then everything was all right. Laura's baby "come so little ahead of time it wasn't hardly noticeable," but poor Laura married the wrong man. When Lizzie and Carl had a lover's quarrel, Ma straightened it out herself with a shotgun. Evie had a real wedding with all the fixings; but her sisters were horrified when she told them why she had no cause to hurry...