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...somewhat comatose state of vacuity, vaguely wondered where his left arm might be. He wanted to use that arm, too, as the alarm clock bothered him, and he felt that for humane reasons he ought to be kind to his poor aching head, and shut that infernal buzzer off. But he certainly wasn't going to be able to cope with any alarm clock if he couldn't find his arm. Yes, he remembered, he had missed his left arm last night in the taxi; was it a taxi?--well anyhow it made no difference, when he was escorting...
Achilles is a Cornell pig, neurotic pet of that university's Prof. Howard Scott Liddell. Prof. Liddell taught Achilles to get an apple by lifting the lid of a box with his snout when he heard a buzzer. Sometimes the coveted apple was missing. Such disappointments put Achilles in such a mental state that he could not make up his mind to try for the apple at all. This was as truly a nervous breakdown as any human being ever suffered, said Prof. Liddell. Achilles "would lay his snout on the cover of the box, close his eyes...
Installed in his new office on Manhattan's Pershing Square, where his first official act was to fix the buzzer, hefty President Baumhogger prepared to make the fur fly for Certainteed. Shuffled out of the management along with his predecessor, Chester E. Rahr, were five executives including 70-year-old Chairman George Marion Brown, who had been the mainspring of Certainteed ever since its beginning as a small tar-paper plant in East St. Louis in 1904. Precipitator of the shuffle was Phoenix Securities' smart President Wallace Groves, who bought Mr. Brown's controlling interest in Certainteed...
...have to cope! I am able to cope, and one has to in this country; but I get tired of it, sometimes. I am not a born coper, like Evangeline; I have had to learn to do it." Only too often she has to ring the buzzer for Mrs. Gonzales or send for Max; it is very wearing. Once they came and told her that Kitty was acting very funny. " 'Oh, where?' I asked plaintively. I didn't want to cope." But she did: she watched Kitty have a fit, finally had to call Max. Kitty died...
...Louisiana. Last week Freeport Texas completed a four-year internal reorganization. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, sportsman son of the late Payne Whitney, was made Freeport's board chairman. Jock Whitney graduated from Yale in 1926 and by the time he finally went to work as a buzzer boy in Lee, Higginson & Co. in Manhattan he was already a director of Great Northern Paper. While answering the buzzer, he got to know another young Lee, Higginson employe named Langbourne Meade Williams Jr., who knew a lot about Freeport Texas. Jock Whitney became Freeport's largest stockholder and a director...