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...biology. And last week there occurred something which the Institute considered the most noteworthy event in its history since Soapmaker Samuel Fels gave $50,000 to its rat colony. The nourishing estate of the Institute is mainly due to its founder, Isaac Jones Wistar, a hard-bitten adventurer in his youth, a brigadier-general in the Civil War, a forthright and crusty capitalist in his old age. One of the general's great uncles, famed Anatomist Caspar Wistar* of the University of Pennsylvania, had left an anatomical collection. This was the nucleus of the Wistar Institute and Isaac wanted...
...third man in red got around to the rear of the wagon and fought his way inside. He counted one sack of mail and six suitcases and then backed out, not before being bitten by a particularly tough pioneer...
...bindle stiffs, reports out of the side of its mouth in short, hair-raising words. A soundly written, expertly produced play, its close-knit suspense timed to the last held breath, it seemed fated by first-nighters' extraordinary enthusiasm to extraordinary success. Some partisans, reading between its hard-bitten lines a sweeping social preachment, freely prophesied that it would win the Pulitzer Prize. Even those who saw in it only a macabre folk-melodrama applauded the play's outspokenness and sincerity...
Unmentioned in geographies, Spoon River is a middlewestern small town that appears on every American literary map. It has been there since 1915, when Poet Edgar Lee Masters published 200-odd hard-bitten epitaphs from an imaginary small-town graveyard, entitled the collection Spoon River Anthology. Bizarre in 1915, the book's candor seems natural in 1937, thus serves as a calculus of the reading public's growing ability to accept life's poison with life's meat...
Both talented pianist and lively music critic is Arthur Loesser of Cleveland. Morning after he played in a recital, there appeared in his Cleveland Press column a picture of Critic Loesser, an other of Performer Loesser. Wrote critic of performer: "Mr. Loesser seems to have been bitten by the irritating bug of wanting to do something farfetched. . . . Mr. Loesser succumbed to his favorite vice, that of listening to the sound of his own voice. . . . The Scarlatti pieces were not badly done, chiefly, because their atmosphere of refined wisecracking is congenial with Mr. Loesser's personality...