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Joel Chandler Harris was primarily a workaday newspaper man who for 24 years wrote editorials and features for the Atlanta Constitution. It was the Constitution which first printed an "Uncle Remus" story and D. Appleton & Co. which first persuaded its author to put a group of them in book form. (First edition: 1880.) A serious student of folklore and Southern dialects, Joel Harris claimed no invention for his stories, contended that he merely compiled them from tales told to him by Negroes...
...turned on the gas jets of the kitchen stove, refused to jump off the icebox. Doctors who will doubtless follow the Woods twins for many a year hope to have this question answered: Will the present differences between Johnny and Jimmy persist as they go through kindergarten, school and workaday life? There has been no scientific evidence one way or another. Professor Frederick Tilney, Dr. McGraw's supervisor in the experiment, last week doubted that Johnny's present advantage would last long...
...butcher who handled a bull-fiddle as familiarly as if it were one of the big carcasses hanging in his refrigerator, a Sears, Roebuck accountant who plays the viola, a postman who is also a flutist, and 100 other double-lived Chicago businessmen hurried from their workaday jobs early one night last week, dressed themselves in freshly-pressed business suits and set out for Orchestra Hall to demonstrate how well a band of earnest, carefully-rehearsed amateurs could play...
...counterbalance the workaday side of a convention there are always light moments devised by thoughtful committees. Most of these at last week's Atlanta meeting of the American Chemical Society were for the scientists' ladies. Included: a barbecue by Atlanta's public-spirited Coca-Cola works, an auto ride to the Federal Penitentiary, excursions to nearby fertilizer factories...
...Senator Broussard of Louisiana, began filling up. In his rear-row seat Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut kept shifting his long legs nervously. His well-cut white head was bent forward; his eyes strayed toward Senator Norris, dropped, scanned the chamber. Senator Jones of Washington glanced up from the workaday stack of books and papers on his desk. Senator Johnson of California in the front row swung his red chair halfway round to watch. His colleague, Senator Shortridge, folded his long arms with stately dignity across his narrow chest...