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...crowd, usually greedy for "color," that curious amalgam of arrogance and nonchalance, this time preferred Oldster Hoppe's quiet manner. At first he justified its hopes, led Cochran by seven points. Gradually Irishman Cochran regained his skill, his orthodox playing succeeding where his opponent's daring wizardry just failed. Superstitious spectators thought Hoppe a sure winner when he reached ''king row" (40th point) ahead of Cochran, groaned when a minute later he miscued. Cochran, now bubbling with confidence, soon completed the match with an unfinished run of seven, prevented Hoppe from fulfilling a ten-year dream...
Another result of these experiments is doubt thrown on the probability that a mercury amalgam was used on the face of the mirrors. No effects of a mercury amalgam was used on the face of the mirrors. No effects of a mercury coating have been discovered, and it has been found that the particular alloy of which they are made will polish to a shiny, silver surface. Replicas of the same alloy are now being made for further experimentation...
...Bronson- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). There are two kinds of irony, intellectual and visceral. Irony from the stomach is the rarer, and when it is applied by a young writer to his own time there are few literary veins more satisfying. Author Bronson's "hero" is apparently an amalgam of the potentialities of different young men he knew at Yale, melted down into a character as thoroughly "American" as Booth Tarkington's Plutocrat. Jonathan ("Johnny," "O. K.") Green is a redheaded, good-natured ruffian from a small town in Pennsylvania. His ability to smash chins and football lines while...
Seven years ago Governor Ross Shaw Sterling of Texas, as publisher, combined his newly acquired Houston Dispatch (onetime Klan paper) with the venerable Houston Post and called the amalgam the Post-Dispatch. Shortly thereafter the famed St. Louis Post-Dispatch went to Federal Court in Houston and demanded that Publisher Sterling change the name of his paper. Throughout the Southwest, they said, the Post-Dispatch was understood to mean the St. Louis paper. The court denied the suit. Last week Publisher J . Josey, who acquired the Post-Dispatch from Governor Sterling two months ago. voluntarily shortened its name...
Publisher Martin contemplates fusing his old magazine with his new, placing the amalgam under the direction of World Traveler's Editor Charles P. Norcross, now junketing in the Orient. Because World Traveler has about one-fourth of its stablemate's distribution, and because when two magazines combine one inevitably swallows the other, publishers guessed that the ever-mutating Mentor would be the one to endure...