Inside Sources

"There are only two occasions," observed Herbert Hoover, "when the American people respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing so some Presidents have gone fishing." In a radio round-table discussion of The Compleat Angler, Fisherman Hoover reminisced about Fisherman Calvin Coolidge: "He was a good deal of a fundamentalist in economics, government, and fishing, so he naturally preferred angleworms. But . . . he took to artificial flies. However, his backcast was so much a common danger that even the secret service men kept at a distance until they were summoned to climb trees to retrieve his flies." Fishing, summed up Hoover, "reduces our egotism, soothes our troubles and shames all of our wickednesses."

Back at Harvard to read his poetry to the students, T. S. Eliot, '10, noted a changed atmosphere. "Nobody ever seems to stop working," said he. "It was certainly not like that in my day." He had a new label for the young men of the times: "The Worried Generation."

Back in Manhattan after a tour, Actor Conrad Nagel reported on the state of "the road" in the U.S. theater. "From the actor's point of view," said he, "the trouble with the road is that in most of the hotels we encountered . . . they hadn't changed the sheets on the beds since 1917.

What mankind needs, declared everready Anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton, is "a science . . . that will teach each person . . . how to behave like a human being." He found cause for worry in an educational system that "offers the stu dent opportunities to learn about practically everything except himself."

What the country needs, declared Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of Bos ton, is "a good day's work for a good day's pay." It can't be got now, the Archbishop admitted, because there has been "too much getting for nothing . . . for too many years."

"If you want to hire a man who is going to produce," declared the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Charles W. Mayo, "the easiest way to make sure of that is to get one who has a duodenal ulcer." He's apt to be on his toes, he explained.

Back in Britain after a five-month U.S. vacation were the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, who would presently push on to the south of France for a vacation. Might the Duke be looking for a job? asked a reporter. "Well, I might some time, but I have nothing definite in mind," replied the Duke. "I never take life easy," he added. "I never have and I never shall."

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