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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please let Will Rogers comment on Scorpio's fate. Anyway, I note that by being born at 12 p. m. Feb. 19 I just made Charles Darwin's star and missed W. J. Bryan's by a comet's hair. Whew...
...Taurus. Unimaginative, conservative creatures of habit. Under this sign were born . . . Sir James M. Barrie, W. G. Marconi, . . . William Shakespeare...
Henry Weber, conductor of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, who incidentally, said that he was the only American-born conductor in the particular field of opera, paced up and down his room in the Ritz Carlton yesterday, as he pointed out the difference between audiences on the two continents...
...college education was any help to a man choosing a theatrical career. Mr. Hodge did not seem so sure. "Of course," he admitted, "a man must master the English language, and college offers him that and other opportunities. But the greatest possibilities are in men themselves. I myself was born poor, have been one of the people and know and love them and that I think is the reason for my success...
Forty-seven years ago, in June, Helen Adams Keller was born, at Tuscumbia, Ala. For a year and a half she was a healthy and good natured little absurdity; then, in her second winter, some jealous deity reached out his hand toward Helen Keller. She had an illness, "acute congestion of the stomach and brain"; afterward she was as deaf and as blind as an idol. For five years, "a peevish, unmanageable little animal," she squirmed in the horror of an endless gloom. Then the wise fingers of Anne Sullivan Macy, tracing with infinite patience signs and symbols upon...