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WILMETTE DEBATER HAS BEST SELLER Albert Edward Wiggam and Clarenc~ Darrow have been debating in public on "Why Do Men Differ?" Mr. Wiggam upheld heredity as the determin'7 ing factor in the individual and th~ race as opposed to environment of which Mr. · Darrow is a noted expon ent. Mr. Wiggam's new book, "Exploring Your Mind," ·recently published, is now a best-seller. LIFE Jan.uary 4, ' 1929 Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS Ten internationally famous men joined to sponsor the letters of Sacco and Vanzetti, the shoemaker and fish: peddler whose execution aroused the world. The book recently published by the Viking Press, is regarded by their sympathizers as a monument to their integrity and fin e-mindedness. The extraordinary and fascinating "Life of Isadora Duncan," still amonr.r the best sellers in this country, is listed among the six best sellers in Buenos Aires this winter. Perhaps the romantic southerners are r.e memOUTSTEPPING DISASTER bering Isadora's remarkable and. triHow close we are to tragedy at all umphant, though sometimes penntless, times is illustrated by a chance bookprogress through their country not so ing made by Richard Halliburton. the ·many years ago. author of "The Glorious Adventure'· and "The Roval Road to Romance ." IN BLACK AND WHITE Halliburton who has been adventuring in the wilds of South America for the "As They Seemed to Me" last eight months wanted to get back By L'go Ojettl to the United States to spend ChristE. P. Dutton & Co. mas with his family but found he'd require several weeks longer and so C, g o Ojetti, one of the foremost edgave up the idea. To fulfill hi:; lecitors and art critics in Italy, has writtrn in this little book, "As The,· ture engagements it was absolutely Seemed to Me," a number of sketches necessary fo r him to arrive in the of people and happenings which are States early in January. Halliburton like excellent etchings, precise. in booked passage on the ill-fated Ye~ black and white rather than in colors, tris, due to arrive in ~ew York on delicate. masterly. Only a few pages January 9. Dick will now return tc given to each, he writes of Duse and the States about January 20, but not on the night when in the middle of a per- the Vestris! formance she received the news of her mother's death, of d'Annunzio and th r The first newspaper printed on paper trip he made in wartime with the made from cornstalks was issued Deauthor to see the shattered cathedral cember 16l 1928, by the Danville, Illiof Rheims. \Vith his delicacy, hi s nois. Commercial-~ews. sense of the dramattc, he make s unforgettable. pictures of Anatole France, Rodin, Pirandetlo and many more. 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