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Wallace: "It looks like I have passed the first grade...
Born. To Corporal Billy Conn, 27, Pittsburgh's curly-haired ex-light heavyweight champ who survived 13 rounds with Joe Louis and one grade B Hollywood role, now putting on boxing shows for U.S. troops in Europe; and Mary Louise Smith Conn, 22; their second child, second son; in Pittsburgh. Weight...
Trying something new, the Board last week placed an initial order for 600,000 new books for public-school children (sample authors: Mark Twain, Stevenson, Dickens, O. Henry) with eye-catching illustrations drawn mostly by the children themselves. These will be distributed free to 7th, 8th, and 9th grade pupils, to keep for their very...
Fresh cash came into the market from bondholders, who were also shifting their money into common stocks. At high prices, bond yields are close to record lows. Barren's noted that the ten "highest grade bonds" on its index paid only 2.6% interest. Any broker could rattle off a string of common stocks paying upwards...
Ellis In, Osier Out. Most of the verse Anthologist McDonough found was very bad indeed: she left out 20 poor poems for every good or fair one she put in. Such doctors as Edward Jenner (vaccination pioneer) and Havelock Ellis made the grade, but a list of all the doctor-poets the anthologist uncovered shows that such poetasters as William Harvey. Hippocrates, Sir William Osier, Rabelais and Morris Fishbein failed to satisfy Mrs. McDonough's critical taste. Nonetheless, a lot of doggerel got in. One of the most amusing contemporary specimens is John Fallon's Inscription...