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Continuing its policy of offering "both sides of de question," the Young Conservatives last night announced that their speaker at some undetermined date will be Earl Chowder, Communist candidate for President. He will speak from the steps of University Hall...
...often mistakenly considered feebleminded, although the intellectual centres of the brain are intact and the sufferers may be intelligent. Best hope of improvement for such persons is in patient self-education and enlightened help from others. One of the most eminent spastic paralytics in the U. S. is Dr. Earl Reinhold Carlson of Manhattan's Neurological Institute (TIME, May 30, 1932). Once a convulsive cripple, an orphan at 18, Earl Carlson conquered his handicap by dint of iron determination, plowed through college and medical school, is now practically normal. He advises hundreds of mothers on what...
...toured the West and Midwest long before he started the craze in Manhattan, launched a nation-wide school of ragtime composers, active during the early 1900s. Prominent followers included Lucky Roberts (Pork and Beans), Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag), Northrup & Confare (Cannon Ball), George Botsford (Texas Steer Rag), and Earl K. Smith (Hot Ashes). Oldtimers who heard Harney do his stuff, recall that his playing sounded very much like that of Zez Confrey (Kitten on the Keys), a little like Fats Waller...
...improved model-an octagonal two-man job of corrosion-resisting steel, with one blank wall which the subjects face and seven bullet-proof windows for people with a scientific interest. It was designed by an enthusiastic artist named Earl C. Liston. It costs $5,000, about $1,000 more than an ordinary chamber, but it is worth it. With its hydrocyanic gas, it can kill two humans at a time, quickly, efficiently, without any mess. Says Earl Liston, with a craftsman's pride: "Our calculations show that this new chamber should snuff out the life in about 15 seconds...
...Trainer Sande, a familiar little figure in unfamiliar clothes, rushed over to Stagehand, plopped a kiss on his nose and led him back to the winner's circle, the jampacked grandstands roared. Looking a little ill at ease without his whip, 39-year-old Earl Sande tipped his hat and grinned. It was his first major victory* in seven years as a trainer...