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Never Make It a Chore. Quit reading when you're tired or your attention begins to wander. If a story bores you, stop it and start another. There's no harm done if you skip a few evenings...
...just a routine chore that young (29) Mathematician Derek Price intended to do in the Peterhouse Library at the University of Cambridge. All he wanted was a look at a certain 14th century manuscript in connection with a history he was writing on scientific instruments. But as soon as the manuscript was brought to him one day last December, Price felt his pulse begin to quicken. By last week, medievalists all over Britain were talking about the mystery unearthed by Price: Who was the author...
While his father reigned and his elder brother gaily globetrotted, Bertie conscientiously studied manufacturing processes and workers' hours and wages (he was president of the Industrial Welfare Society). He was called "The Industrial Prince." His still-persistent stammer made public speaking a wearisome chore, yet on one occasion, while rehearsing a speech at Wembley, he endeared himself to a crowd of startled workmen by stammering into a microphone, "This d-d-damn thing won't work," just as it started working. He played a good game of left-handed tennis, shot golf in the 80s, liked to hunt...
...less heroic in proportions. It called for a special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson and former American Bar Association head, Cody Fowler), the chore was accepted by Newbold Morris, a blueblood reformist Republican from Manhattan...
Final examinations start tomorrow and therefore the editors of Cambridge's Only Breakfast Daily must study zealously. In deference to the seasonal chore the CRIMSON goes on a staggered schedule and the CRIME will not slither under doors until Saturday morning...