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THAT WORTHLESS FELLOW PLATONOV- Anton Chekhov; translated by John Gournos-Button...
...Florence Brooks-Aten of Manhattan she decided not to pay the bill. Painter George de Forest Brush promptly sued. The case was called for the third time in Manhattan last week. Mrs. Brooks-Aten displayed her matronly face to the jury, produced testimony that the portrait gave her shoe-button eyes, that her figure had been made to look like that of a "stuffed doll." These mishaps, however lamentable if true, did not concern the jury, which was faced with deciding whether or not, after paying Painter Brush for the finished portrait, Mrs. Brooks-Aten had entered upon...
...paintings which hung at the Grand Central last week was Mourning Her Brave: the figure of a squaw, standing in snow at the edge of a cliff. Birds circle in the grey sky over her head, the snow stretches upward behind her over rocks, she raises her wide shoe-button eyes into a sky that is empty of all things except snow...
Although Scovill has been growing since James Mitchell Lamson Scovill brought his name to the button-making concern in 1811, its greatest expansion has been in recent years. In 1862 Chauncey P. Goss (of the famed Connecticut & Yale Goss family) entered the company; in 1900 became its president. The Gosses now have superseded the Scovills as principal stock-holders and officials. At present the one Scovill on the Board is outnumbered by Edward O. Goss (President and son of the first Goss), John H. Goss, Chauncey P. Goss Jr. and G. A. Goss as fellow-directors; William M. Goss, Edward...
...absence of Dr. Wilbur. Her chief qualities: imperturbability and omniscience. She out-poker-faces that other Helen of California, and she knows instantly every rill of information that affects or may affect the University. Is there an unwise movement developing in the student body? She touches invisible button number one, and the matter ends. Does a faculty member sponsor a doubtful local issue? Invisible button number two avoids the difficulty, and it is done so skillfully that neither student nor faculty member holds the slightest rancor, nor in fact quite knows how it all came about...