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...White Jacket," Melville's famous novel of life on a man-o-war is among the original manuscripts. "Agatha's Story," which he wrote in a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of his closest friends, is another...
...single Harvard Law system. We have a multitude of systems. We are not Bealian or Willistonian or Frankfurtian; we have no one brand of thought here. Our faculty disputes with each other in class and out. This fighting back and forth prevents the development of a straight-jacket method of teaching. You meet all sorts of philosophies, techniques, and approaches to law at Harvard and it is more desirable to have this variety of outlook than a definite school of thought...
...coal miners expect to die some day. Unlike all men, coal miners also expect that an abnormally high proportion of their number will not die in bed.* Last week death came to 45 miners caught by an explosion of natural gas and rock dust in the Red Jacket Coal Co. mine near Grundy, in southwestern Virginia...
inveterate sage, author & traveler, arrived in Manhattan fresh from Doom and his annual spring visit with his bearded bosom friend, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II. Minus his customary velvet jacket, his customary flowing bow tie, Octogenarian Bigelow in high good humor delivered himself to newshawks on this & that. On the Kaiser: "He doesn't set up as good a table as some of my neighbors." On Europe: "Next time I see you, Paris will be a provincial town of Germany with the people shouting 'Heil Hitler' in French." On Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt, I think...
...clothing store, and Millionaire George Rasmussen, head of National Tea Co. until his death in 1936, made a trip to Wisconsin in a high-sided Stearns touring car. Every night when he shed his goggles Tourist Benson was irked to find that, though his linen duster had protected his jacket, his trousers had got thoroughly dirty. Tourist Rasmussen, however, had solved that problem in advance, had a change at the end of a day: his tailor had made him an extra pair of pants...