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Died. Mme. Krao Farini, 49, famed "Siamese Missing Link, for 30 years a strange hairy freak in the employ of numerous circuses; in Manhattan, of asthma and influenza, while employed by the combined Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circuses...
...delight to flay you, may I draw my quill in your defense ? Some of these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks to indicate the comparative importance of the objects in an art collection ? Your "famed" and Baedecker's asterisks are simply highly condensed symbols for indicating relationships which could not be otherwise indicated without many wasted...
Coach Stevens of the University crew has engaged the Metropolitan Ice Company to commence cutting ice on the Charles River at 8.30 o'clock this morning, it was anounced last night. The Metropolitan Company will employ a gasoline driven ice-cutter in an attempt to break up the ice, and clear the river for the crews. The cutting will be done above the Newell Boat House which will afford the University rowers a fairly long course and will hasten the breaking up of the ice further down the river...
...sing only the praises of contemporary literature. This group turns with disdain from all outside the present decade and eulogizes the merits of strictly coeval writers, particularly those on the extreme left. They adhere solely to those authors who embrace all of the current fads and employ an abstruse symbolism to achieve reality. The chief virtue which literature may possess is newness. The new may be old tomorrow, but it is at least new today...
...Remington was in the field with this new machine, a powerful competitor to N. C. R. This company brought suit, claiming, and accurately, that Mr. Fuller had developed his new register within a year after leaving its employ. SCOTUS* Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, before his appointment by President Coolidge to the attorney-generalship and later to the bench, represented N. C. R. Afterwards Charles Evans Hughes, onetime (1910-16) SCOTUS Justice took his place. John A. Garver and Frank M. Patterson (not ascertainable as a relative of the N. R. C. Pattersons) now represent the Remington concern. Justice Joseph...