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...able to addle through. In a sketch of Henry Ford, Author Pitkin disclaims ambition to write the Ford biography-"the job would be too dull for us." Walt Whitman he calls a caution, but is forced to admit, "Not until introverts no longer read and write shall we be rid of the Steer that lived on Leaves of Grass." In spite of all, Author Pitkin remains incorrigibly optimistic. With not unheard-of scientific naivete he hopes to save mankind by mechanization of many of man's functions. In his age of Super-Sense, "A hay fever sufferer will . . . have...
...years, was born in Landau, Palatinate, Germany, in 1840, emigrated at the age of 6, always spoke English with an accent. He always drew. At the age of 15, a small, fat boy, he asked the imposing Frank Leslie for a job. To get rid of him Publisher Leslie told him to draw the holiday crowds at the Hoboken ferry. So good was the result that fat Tommy Nast was promptly hired?at $4 a week. Constant difficulty in collecting even this salary caused him to leave Leslie's Weekly. The New York Illustrated News sent him to Italy...
Before starting on what he called his "great adventure" in clammy midwinter London, Mr. Mellon last week planned a brief holiday in the South, to cure a lingering cold, rid himself of a hacking little cough and warm his old bones...
...uprooting of the indifferent attitude at Harvard would stimulate scholarship, and bring about increased participation in activities. How can we get rid of Harvard indifference,--only by changing the psychological atmosphere which surrounds the University. This means firing instructors who are so bored by teaching the students they themselves make the students bored, it means the organization of councils where students may have a chance to express their differences, and it means the placing of emphasis toward the fraternizing of Harvard...
...Nationalist Government, arrived in Nanking last week. A thousand chastened members of the Kuomintang party assembled to welcome him. Only six weeks ago these same men forced him to resign the Presidency. He left and his opponents shouted to the winds that they were heartily glad to be rid...