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...California get the royalties for the manufacture of Coffey-Humber extract. (They patented the process of extraction last year, before they knew exactly what they had, primarily to keep the drug away from quacks.) But for fame the two men-Dr. Coffey. 63, and Dr. Humber, 36-are avid. "A Square Deal" When Dr. Swing's turn came last week to say why Drs. Coffey & Humber should be excluded from New York, he was a benign Dutch uncle: "The most important question is whether Drs. Coffey and Humber are getting a square deal from the organized medical profession...
...Avid for business, last week the New York Produce Exchange started trading in the stock of this new company on a "no name yet" basis. For convenience sake traders called the company "Columbia Graphophone & Gramophone...
...seldom that an Englishman even a naturalized Englishman, deigns to compliment Americans, especially on intellectual matters, that Michael Arlen's announcement to the effect that Americans are more avid readers than the English is almost in the nature of a departure from national policy. The novelist goes further and implies that the American reading public mingles with its intellectualism an element of philanthropy, in that its cultural activities serve to prevent the death from malnutrition of many British litterateurs...
...have never before felt impelled to write a letter to TIME on any subject during the six years I have been a regular subscriber and an avid reader of your magazine. I would, however, like to see more letters and articles on the subject of paying the Adjusted Service Certificates to veterans in the near future (TIME...
...finest things he has done, was made possible by the removal of some scaffolding from the dining hall of Pomona College, 40 mi. south of Los Angeles. Last winter, head of Pomona's art department was Professor Jose Pijoan, authority on Latin American art, avid Orozcoan. So long, so vigorously did he preach Orozco to the sons and daughters of Pomona that on their own initiative they invited Orozco to come west, decorate their dining hall. "We have no money," said Prof. Pijoan when Orozco arrived, "at present only $500." Artist Orozco glowered through his glasses. "Never mind about...