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Harvard's retiring President Lowell tried to curb young John Haven Emerson last year. "Stop making respirators," said President Lowell in effect. "I will like hell!" roared young Emerson, long, lean son of long, lean Public Health Man Dr. Haven Emerson of Manhattan, and strode out of the presidential mansion. He loaded a respirator on the rear end of his rebuilt Buick, and with his wife went peddling respirators in competition with Harvard's long, lean Professor Philip Drinker. Professor Drinker, through Warren E. Collins Inc., the cautious Boston manufacturers to whom he assigned patents on the respirator...
...William Tatem Tilden II: a "farewell" tennis match in Manhattan against German Hans Nusslein, No. 2 man of the Tilden troupe: 6-3, 6-2. By "farewell," long, lean Tilden, theatrical as ever, meant it was his last match in Manhattan-at least until after another tour of the U. S. and a tour of Europe, starting June...
Though you should lean above me brokenhearted, I shall not care...
...waves of bank failures that have periodically swept wide areas of the land since the Depression have washed harmlessly around northern California. In contrast with Illinois' 207 bank closings last year, Iowa's 150, Michigan's 86, California boasted a lean 32. Last week a wave skittered down California's sun-drenched Sacramento Valley, toppled over Woodland's Bank of Yolo with $2.500,000 in resources, washed away Esparto's Bank of Esparto, struck down the two biggest independent banks in the State Capital, the California National of Sacramento and the California Trust & Savings...
...locomotives must be equipped with power reversers. Of the 55,000 locomotives in the land (of which 9,000 were in need of repair last week), half still have hand reverse gears. The I. C. C. order means that about $10,000,000 will be transferred out of the lean pockets of the railways into the lean pockets of the equipment companies...