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Eden End (by John Boynton Priestley; Milton Shubert, producer). Wrote Author-Playwright Priestley (The Good Companions, Laburnum Grove) in the New York Times three weeks before his lastest play opened in Manhattan: " I should like to see more English plays here, more American plays in London... There will be disappointments, of course... The average New Yorker does not go to the theatre in exactly the same state of mind as the average London citizen. The former has a weakness for plays that tighten and then jangle his nerves. Our London audiences like to be gently moved, to melt into...
...opinion, however, was the history of insulin, cure for diabetes, discovered by young Dr. Frederick Grant Banting and his student helper, Charles Herbert Best, at Toronto, 100 miles from Kingston, despite the impatience of their Uni-versity of Toronto superiors. Dr. Connell also had an assistant, Bertram J. Hols-grove, 31, whose initial job had been to wash test tubes and dishes. The pair regularly worked 14 to 16 hours daily. Dr. Connell abandoned his profitable eye-ear-nose-&-throat practice. Some apostolic members of Queen's University medical faculty helped him. He spent...
...eyed philosopher has just sneaked away from his unsympathetic wife and is heading for the market place. There he knows he will meet Plato and Glancon and other men with whom he can examine this all too unexamined life. As they retire to the quiet of some nearby olive grove they will be followed by enthusiastic youths eager to hear Socrates fire his questions and shear his colleagues of their pretentious wisdom. They love this kindly man who professes his wisdom lies only in the awareness of his ignorance. And they like to hear him talk of the virtue that...
...almost lifelong dream of a native Floridian. About the Century's turn a penniless, Nonconformist preacher left Cape Cod for the sake of his wife's health, setting out for Florida with his family and chattels in a horse & wagon. Near Miami he staked out a 160-acre grapefruit grove, named it Coral Gables, prospered enough to send his son George north to college. Son George Merrick wrote verse, won a short story contest, abruptly abandoned his literary career when his father died in 1912. Returning to Florida, he became obsessed with the idea of building the perfect city...
...much as they disturbed my sleep. I couldn't help be sorry for them. For once they were discontent with domesticity. The boundary of their world had suddenly grown larger than the barn lot, the grove, the garden and the orchard. Somewhere far to the south waited a wide, gray marshland, pale and misty under the warm southern moon-waited the winter haven for all the web-footed creatures...