Freedom From Fear: Boston is Liberated As Suspect is Captured

“O happy town beside the sea,” philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson called Boston, “whose roads lead everywhere to all.” Friday would have saddened him. Oliver...

Taking the Temperature.

In March 1933, A few days after his Inauguration as President, Franklin Roosevelt left the White House to pay his respects to 92-year-old former Supreme Court...

MUHAMMAD ALI: The Greatest

Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that every profession is great that is greatly pursued. Boxing in the early '60s, largely controlled by the Mob, was in a...

Books: The Great Dissenter

YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS — Catherine Drinker Bowen — Little, Brown ($3). Since the late great Justice Holmes died, in 1935, he has been the subject of eight books...

Medicine: Autocrat of the Confessional

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table) wrote three novels which have been widely unread. They reflected the scientific interests of their...

Books: Holmes's Heir

HOLMES OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE—M. A. DeWolfe Howe—Oxford Universify Press ($2.50). In a Beacon Hill drawing room one Saturday afternoon in 1893 an awed young...

Modern Living: The Biggest Dome

"Let each new temple, nobler than the last," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, "shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast!" Poet Holmes was referring to mansions...

Books: The Postman Rings Twice

HOLMES-POLLOCK LETTERS Mr. Justice Holmes & Sir Frederick Pollock—Harvard (2 vols., $7.50). One scorching day in 1862, a Boston Brahmin stood on the...

Medicine: Fetal Rights

The late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), married but childless, had a lifelong professional interest in pregnant women. When he...

Books: The 20-Year Dialogue

HOLMES-LASKI LETTERS (1,650 pp.)—2 Vols. edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe—Harvard ($12.50). It all began with a simple bread & butter note that Harold J. Laski, 23,...