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This man, lamous as a sculptor, architect, musician, mechanician engineer, philosopher, but particularly as a painter, was the son of a Florentine lawyer, born out of wedlock by a mother of humble station. From early age he showed that he possessed the spark which was to burst forth into the flame of genius. He was not one of those artists of the Renaissence who sought to revive the ancient glories of art by the imitation of Greek and Roman models . He was a tireless student of nature and from it he drew the subtile play of light and shade...
...still at Dartmouth, functioning first as the president's secretary, then as secretary of the college. The big brother took another degree, A. M. The young brother accepted his fortune and buckled down to work, for a shoe company, an optical company, the General Electric Co., a spark coil company. He learned about men, kept up his interest in education and after serving the Government as a personnel expert, accepted a post at Northwestern University in 1922 as personnel director. Meantime, his older brother had become president of Dartmouth College, a man to whom Amherst, Colby, Rutgers, Brown, McGill...
Columbus discovered America; Hudson discovered New York; Benjamin Franklin discovered the spark That Edison discovered would light...
...opened my stations to the public in 1907, received the Nobel Prize in physics for 1909 and in 1910 talked to Buenos Aires from Ireland. Al ways I was building up the power of my transmission and in 1912 patented the 'timed spark' system, by which continuous discharges of exceedingly long waves (14,000 metres and more) could be employed...
...fights in the pulpit, foot races down the aisles, and circularize through the mail. "If Paul of Tarsus [loud cheers for Paul, 'the first Christian go-getter'] was not above inditing epistles to Thessalonia, I'm not above writing letters to the Bronx." When a belated spark of rebellion lights up Mr. Midge's poor soul, family responsibilities smother it to death. Mr. McEvoy's brilliant lines are aided by effective staging in the "constructivist" technique-spotlighting that reveals, in various quarters and levels of the same stage, several different offices, the Midge parlor...