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...soon as Inventor Kettering graduated from Ohio State University in 1904 he threw his diploma away lest it make him think his education finished. He went to Dayton where a job in National Cash Register was awaiting him. He was told to make an electric cash register and did. His manners annoyed the late John Henry Patterson who fired him on sight time & again. The engineering department repeatedly rehired him. For while Inventor Kettering has come by a fortune in his own right he is the antithesis of the successful businessman. He may go to a formal dinner...
...resumed work as editorial writer, wrote regularly for the next 40 years until Editor Norman Hume Anthony, now of Ballyhoo, took the editorship of Life in 1929 for a brief tenure. Lloyd George had called E. S. Martin "the greatest editorial writer using the English language today"; Anthony threw out the Martin editorials because they were "lousy." The Martin editorials have been resumed since then and E. S. Martin should reinstate reference to Life in his 25-line biography in Who's Who-a biography which lists 17 books of verse and essays, and which notes his authorship...
...which overthrew China's ruling Manchu House. Next day Dr. Soong and Mr. Sun denied sponsoring the resolutions which, nevertheless, had passed and produced immediate results. Within a few hours Chinese patriots stole into the British Concession at Tientsin, approached the residence of the Japanese Consul General, threw a bomb which exploded with much noise, little effect...
When the audience at Manhattan's Belasco Theatre one night this week threw away programs, reached for hats & coats and made for the doors, neither spectators nor reviewers were quite sure how good a play they had seen. Criticism is the wife of Comparison, and there never was a play like this one on Broadway. But one thing is certain. No one will soon forget Katharine Cornell's Lucrece...
...have told you for certain: where Howard Scott was born, raised, educated what were his credentials as engineer or scientist; for whom he had worked; nor, for that matter, precisely what he meant by his statements of Technocracy's solution tor technological unemployment This was partly because Technocrat Scott threw about himself an air of scientific impersonality and profundity. Technocracy was an idea; he was its intelligence; his person and personality did not matter; listen and understand, if you can, but do not interrupt or pry into Howard Scott...