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...true that there are bronchoscopes in almost every U. S. city. But let Reader Hanna pause in his condemnation of the Orlando doctor. As in most surgical cases, people requiring bronchoscope work often seek specialists. Unlike the pulmotor, which any fireman can use, the bronchoscope is a very delicate device to manipulate...
...murder of a noted bandit and racketeer is bound to be a matter of some interest to the "composite reader," When in addition the victim has successively over a seventeen-year period matured felonious little plans as "wagon bouncer," small-time "chiseler," labor terrorizer, robber, murderer, narcotic smuggler, and leader of a "mob" in liquor traffic, he becomes at least deserving of notice in the news. Yesterday showed that if he can acquire a nickname, be twenty-three times arrested in vain, and attain a certain facility in absorbing and dodging lead, he may be judged worthy of even...
...week. And each week when I am landed back my corrected paper I am forced to concede the justice of about one-third the red ink spilled thereon--but with the other two-thirds I take strenuous issue. Even the class instructor's version often differs with the readers. "Just a difference of opinion between experts," or "Perhaps the reader interpreted the passage in another way--". Perfectly sound explanations, but just where dew that leave my grade? In order to write a perfect paper for next Thursday I must not only write a correct one; in addition I must foresee...
...Readers. The late great Samuel Gompers started life as a cigarmaker's "reader." Cigarmakers long ago found they could work better if their minds were occupied by having one of their number read aloud to them, the workers making up by pro rata contributions the cigars the reader would have made. Sam Gompers used to read from Dickens, Thackeray, John Stuart Mill, and for a time from Karl Marx, though he got over that after he founded...
...themselves to the utmost to do one another down. Though Stuffed Shirts is not a continued story, the same stuffed shirts reappear from time to time, and if you are curious about their relationship a genealogical table at the end will make all clear. If you are a constant reader of the society page you may have some fun adventuring among Authoress Brokaw's straw people. If you know the locale, you will recognize familiar faces...