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...Beaumarchais' life had one distinction which was lacking in the careers of such blackmailers as D'Eon, Cagliostro or Morande. Like them he employed forgery and imposture when it seemed convenient, dabbled in high finance, grafted, was guilty of staggering treacheries. Unlike them, he possessed a streak of integrity, was capable of writing artful and honest plays that expressed the dominant social conflicts of his time. In Paul Frischauer's excellent biography, Beaumarchais is analyzed as "a herald of revolution," since the type of conflict he dramatized was soon to explode in reality...
...long-exposure plate Mt. Wilson Observatory's Edwin Powell Hubble lately found a streak of light which was subsequently identified by other telescope men as an asteroid, one of some 1,400 small planets between Mars and Jupiter. It was a remarkable asteroid in that its orbit was more steeply inclined (39°) to the general plane of planetary revolution than any other except one (43°). But it seemed odd for Dr. Hubble, of all astronomers, to be making such a discovery, for the realm in which he usually works is so distant that the asteroids by comparison...
True to form, the Winthrop House eleven will go into today's game leading the league, a distinct favorite, to continue its streak of victories over Adams House...
Manager Charles John Grimm was for years the best fielding first baseman in the league. In July, there were rumors he might lose his job. In August he snapped his team out of a losing streak by forbidding them to play poker. For the past three weeks, he has been superstitiously driving a nail into the heel of his shoe before each game. A capable baritone, banjoist and bagatelle player, nephew of Director George P. Vierheller of the St Louis Zoo, Manager Grimm has worried himself from 195 to 175 lb. since April. Last week, his worries partly over...
...Tigers. Baseball, even more than most games, gives rise to absurd speculations. Whether the Cubs would arrive at the World Series fatigued and nervous because of their long winning streak or whether this merely indicated that they were "hot," was one delicate question which experts were trying to settle last week. Another was whether the Detroit Tigers would start comfortably rested or in the throes of a letdown. The Tigers became mathematically certain of winning the American League pennant last fortnight but long before that their victory had been an overwhelming probability. The Cleveland Indians, favorites in the spring, never...