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...friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life for them, and the doctor brings it about with a slow poison. Through tortuous labyrinths, accompanied by an idiot's violin whining of life and death, the guilty pair develop their deeds from dark sins to a triumph over destiny...
Died, Thomas L. Hisgen, 67, unsuccessful candidate for the U. S. Presidency in 1908 (Independence League), bitter opponent of the Standard Oil interest; at Springfield, Mass. In 1880 he pawned a treasured violin to get capital for a projected axle grease factory. By 1898 he and his three brothers owned the largest grease factory in the world...
...reviewed a Frontier Days parade, was made a member of a Sioux tribe, abandoning his regular pipe for one two feet long with eagle feathers, was christened "Great White Father No. 2" (at the same function, Governess Ross was made "Princess Nellie Taylor"). He entertained a banjo-accordion-saxophone-violin orchestra in his rooms, and later played the piano for them for an hour. He reviewed the troops at Fort D. A. Russell, lunched with Senator and Mrs. Warren...
What if a wight named Tell should win a shooting match? Or one called Nero should give violin concerts? Or some Greek christened Achilles die of blood poisoning in the heel? Almost as fine a day for lovers of coincidence occurred one day last week, when The New York Times headlined: DR. JOHNSON TO EDIT DICTIONARY, referring to crisp, diffident Dr. Allen Johnson* of Yale University and the Dictionary of American Biography, the production of which the Times has underwritten (TIME, Dec. 22, THE PRESS...
...until statements of his began to appear in the public press to the effect that "Solitude is my only relief. ... I live with abstract thinkers, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Walter Pater. . . . Human contact makes me ill. ... I resolve to retire to some Italian lake with my beloved Shelley, Keats, and violin. ... I am too tragic by nature. ... I don't give a damn about anybody. ..." Critics took him up. On the strength of his avowed penchant for philosophical thought, they decided that he was a genius. H. G. Wells was proud to meet him. George Bernard Shaw gave him a couple...