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Motorman Franklin got his start as a printer's devil in Coxsackie, N. Y. some hundred miles from his birthplace in Lisle, Broome County. In the early 1890s he set himself up as H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co., maker of die castings. Mechanically-minded young men of that time were absorbed in the automobile, and when John Wilkinson gave Herbert Franklin a ride in an air-cooled contraption he had just invented, Herbert Franklin decided to branch into the exciting new industry. In 1902 Motorman Franklin produced 13 automobiles priced at $1,100 each. Soon he ranked among...
...response to worried queries from harassed Harvard men as to the danger of that ole devil Jumping John Dillinger, 1934's desperate man about the country, showing up in the Yard some of these days, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, of the Yard forces, revealed yesterday that there was little or no danger of such a happening in these well guarded precincts. Apted, who at first shied away from the questions in favor of giving his opinions on the need of a national police force, did reveal that such fears were mere tommyrot among the full grown...
...time to the Scala. No one thought he would accept when Clarence Mackay asked him to conduct the Philharmonic in 1926. And when he cabled that he would come, great was the trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot, a devil. He used no score even at rehearsal but he could detect the tiniest flaws. Once in Milan he had smashed an offending violin and a splinter flew up, hit the player in one eye. Toscanini's fabulous memory gave him his first chance to conduct. He had studied...
...film has already been acclaimed as one of the outstanding achievements of the current season and is unusual in that it reunites the glamorous Garbo with John Gilbert after a screen separation of five years. Their scenes together are reminiscent of such former pictures as "Flesh and the Devil" and "Woman of Affairs...
...ever been made in English. But Cabell is a lover of red herrings. Actually Smirt is hardly more than a loosely-strung series of essays on its author's favorite topic (his own position as a writer), with occasional Jurgenish passages about love, sprightly interviews with God, the Devil, the public-at-large...