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The Learned Coal Man. For entertainment of another kind, London music lovers in 1678 went to a small room above a coal shop in Jerusalem Passage. There, every Thursday night for 40 years, Thomas Britton, "the Musical Small-Coal Man," gave the capital's best concerts. He hawked coal...
Halsey had unbosomed even more perilous confessions. A non-believer in the strict Navy regulations against liquor aboard ship, he had carried 100 gallons of bourbon for his pilots. Said the Admiral: "To a man who has just had a tense, hazardous flight or a wet watch there is no...
In 1936 he became dean of the University of Iowa's graduate school, which outraged academic conservatives by awarding graduate degrees for creative work (novels, symphonies, paintings) as well as for learned theses. A believer in "corridor education" and plenty of relaxation, Stoddard dragged students and faculty, including Artist...
Died. Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, 72, hard-bitten onetime chief of the British Imperial General Staff, outstanding tactician of World War I, a great believer in mechanized, mobile warfare; in Lymington, Hants, England.
Dionne, a religious man who goes to Mass every morning, is also a believer in the letter of the law. He keeps wages in most cases close to the legal minimum of 20? an hour, or $9.60 for a 48-hour week. Girls housed at Le Foyer spend $6 of...