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Daniel Fitzpatrick, 50, worked up into cartooning the hard way. Born in the industrial city of Superior, Wis., he was kicked out of high school at 16 because he spent his time drawing instead of studying algebra and history. In Chicago he found he could make money turning out comic strips for the Chicago Evening News at $1 apiece. Before he was 21 the Evening News had hired him to do front page cartoons. A year later he heard that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's cartoonist had quit, got the job, started out with a cartoon attacking...
Last week, as the Census Bureau organized its 1940 figures, a Harvard mathematician was studying a still unsolved problem in algebra unwittingly posed by the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Constitution says: "Representatives ... shall be apportioned among the several States ... according to their respective numbers . . . but each State shall have at least one Representative." "This problem," points out Harvard Mathematician Edward Vermilye Huntington, "has worried Congress into a state of great perplexity and bitter debate after every decennial census for over a hundred years." In a 41-page Senate Document he recently tackled the problem...
...Tuesday's meeting, two other new half-year courses were introduced had approved. Economics 118b is a seminar course dealing with "selected applications of statistics to problems of economic theory." Biology 111b concerning biometry relates the applications of statistics and algebra to biological problems of all kinds, particularly those of genetics. The course includes a study of the normal curve, goodness of fit, correlation coefficients, and the analysis of variance...
...Notable absentee: Idaho's Borah. Said he: "It's dangerous to listen to Roosevelt, because he could recite an example in algebra and make it interesting. When I want to know what he said I have to sit down and read it. Be assured I will read his speech...
...algebra began to clear a little. To Byrne's job the Governor appointed Neils Hertz. One hour and 15 minutes after Hertz had been sworn in, the three-judge hearing on the rebel jurors' charges was dismissed, on Hertz' motion. The argument: if Byrne is out, why investigate him? After months of work, the jurors were getting close to what may be Louisiana's highest-smelling corruption, the alleged "tax racket," whereby citizens and corporations agreed with tax officials on luscious tax reductions, with the savings split both ways. To terminate the hearing on Byrne...