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...born in Cambridge in 1859, and the early part of his life has passed largely into saga form in his stories and reminiscences. Locally he worked on the Cambridge Horse Car Line, ran a tobacco shop near Beacon Hill, and for some time before he was enrolled with the Lampoon he was employed along the Gold Coast. Many of his stories dealt with his travels about the world, now as a bath-steward on a North Atlantic liner, now as crew on a cattle-ship. His repertoire included tales of the Boston fire and many epic incidents from Australian experiences...
...opportunities for entertainment in Boston this week are distressingly curtailed, what with the theatres dark and "The Woman in Room 13" distributed about the town at the Fenway, Modern, and Beacon. It is a weird "plot pourri" of all the tales handed in at the Fox office this last twelvemonth. Miss Landi tramps along through a divorce court, a murder court, and out to the glaring sunlight of a tennis court where she serves very badly, and back again into prison to see her husband serve for his double fault. It is a grotesque slow-moving business made possible...
...there were snobbery and humiliations. The paint man couldn't understand, he never understood, why his daughters, the one so pretty the other so clever, could not be accepted by the great granddaughters of sea faring men. Then came business failure, the selling of the nearly completed house on Beacon Street, and the removal to the old farm in Vermont from whence he had sprung. Such was the rise of Silas Lapham...
...past few months "To the Gamest Kid in America" has found its way directly to Clarence Hastings, City Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y. He was 14 and a hero, having lived in a Drinker respirator one day longer than anyone else. His runner-up was Birdsall Sweet, also 14, of Beacon, N. Y. The infantile paralysis epidemic of last summer and autumn (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante) had put them in respirators, big sheet steel cans which made a bellows of their listless lungs, pumped air into them (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930; Sept. 21). Stories of Clarence Hastings' happy fortitude...
...headphones in the cabin, serves as his flying office and from which every detail of airway construction, maintenance, lighting and radio weather-reporting can be observed first hand. Only touch of elegance in the cabin is a brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side; on the other the name of Clarence M. Young in orange letters. The pillow was the gift and particular pride of Col. Young's pilot, plump John Cable. In one or another of the Department's planes the Colonel...