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William Rockhill Nelson migrated to Kansas City from Indiana 55 years ago, founded the Star which quickly grew to fame. Known as the Baron of Brush Creek, he died in 1915. By his will, and those of his wife and daughter a $12,000,000 trust fund from the sale of the Star to its employes was set up to build a great museum, to fill it with treasures.* There was only one important restriction: the museum may only buy the works of artists 30 years dead...
...countries it is to a very great extent a state service. . . . In all countries west of the U. S. S. R., total official bulk larger than total private medical activities. . . . Other countries may well envy Soviet Russia's elaborately centralized Government . . . in that it has been able to brush aside all past complexities and to initiate a nearly universal national medical service on unified lines, untrammeled by such complications as exist in western Europe and America...
...game. Its authors, Yalemen, take a mild, busy college professor (Robert Keith) as their representative of the Right. They persuade him a little toward the Left, involve him with stevedores striking against War, with Communists, with a radical friend who is murdered by the Interests. Tarred with the Left brush, he is crushed by his onetime comrades of the Right. His college classmates, holding a reunion, dress as cowboys, get drunk, mumble themselves into a rage against "good old Pete.'' They climb in his window, bully his little daughter, argue drunkenly with him. When they propose to take...
Matthew Chauncey Brush, bushy-browed Wall Street trader and elephantophile, resigned as president and became chairman of American International Corp., his famed investment trust. Harry A. Arthur, first vice president, was promoted to the presidency. Recently ill, Trader Brush planned a prolonged vacation to recover his health...
THERE is a story current in the Soviet Union that whenever Maurice Hindus crosses the border into Russia the news is telegraphed instantly to the hamlet where he was born, with the instructions "Brush up the village, boys, Hindus is on his way!" Whether or not the man's first publications, "Humanity Uprooted," "Broken Earth," and "Red Bread," offer openings for such an apocrypha, his latest collation will give no satisfaction to those who think him a blind enthusiast. On the contrary it is only too apparent that he is leaning over backwards in pursuit of objectivity. He relates...