Word: bains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laze Symmes is a giant, hard-driving Yankee, who punches his Portygee workers in the nose, terrorizes even the town banker. But when the hero, a skinny, down-&-out college graduate, goes to work in the factory, terrible Symmes has no chance. Scrawny Keith Bain simply parries his bullying with cool, ironical sass. When Symmes hesitates and fumes about giving Bain five cents more an hour, the puny David says: "Come on, Symmes, make up your mind. . . ." This defiance works so well, in fact, that Symmes invites him to board at his home...
Thus the hero is placed where he has a perfect all-round view of the boss. He gets involved in Symmes's family quarrels, his feuds with vindictive Portygee workmen. Meanwhile, Bain has an affair with a schoolteacher, visits Portygee families, gathers a vast anti-Symmes lore. His complete triumph comes when he saves Symmes's life. By this time Bain has so far got the upper hand that he even has a sneaking affection for the mean old devil...
Tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House, the Sociology Club will hear Read Bain, Chairman of the Department of Sociology at Miami University in Ohio, speak on "Sociology, A Natural Science." Professor Bain is visiting lecturer in the Sociology Department this year. He has recently been elected for a two-year term to the editorship of the American Sociological Review...
Other visiting scholars in the social sciences will include Professor Charles Bunn, of the University of Wisconsin Law School, who will lecture at the Law School; Dr. Read Bain, Professor of Sociology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, who will lecture on Social Conflict, Social Control, and Personality; and Professor Delbert J. Duncan, of the Northwestern University School of Commerce, who will lecture at the Business School on Marketing...
...story was promptly featured by the Pittsburgh press, picked up by the Associated Press, United Press, Scripps Howard's N. E. A. Feature Service. Before the sesquicentennial publicity died away Janitor Harris had outstripped by clipping count Pitt's celebrated Football Coach Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland and become Pitt's No. 1 news story of the year...