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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Manuel Komroff was born 37 years ago in New York City. He received his college education at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, did post-graduate work at Yale in music and art. After serving as art critic for New York newspapers and as a writer of special articles, he traveled extensively through the Far East, contributing to the Chinese and Japanese press. Married, he lives in Manhattan. Two years ago he published The Grace of Lambs, a collection of short stories which was widely acclaimed. Juggler's Kiss is his first full-length novel...
...public alse over so gently implied. And Mr. Ford replies with better lines, quiet, more power, more speed, in a still veiled Juggernaut of a motor millenium that can butcher pedestrians to make a Sudbury holiday, and buy the antiques of a more restful past. A Detroit Isis is born again with renewed vigor in the American pageant. They used to laugh at the car that now is dead. "But there is no death. There is only laughter," said Mr. O'Neil's Lazarus...
...lies in the contagious thrill which all newspaper work holds. Most of us, at one time or another, after deciding that after all we didn't want to be a policeman or drive the rear end of a hook and ladder truck, evolve the theory that we are natural born newspaper men. And there is a bit of the journalist in many of us. A CRIMSON competition helps to show how much...
Adolf Joffe was 44 years old when he died. Born in the sunny Crimea, he joined (at the age of 17) the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, the left wing of which became the present Bolshevist movement. An education in Russia being consequently denied to him, he went to Berlin and there studied medicine (1903-6), thence to Zürich to study law (1907), thence to Vienna to study law & medicine. His departure from Berlin was precipitated by the authorities who, on account of his radicalism, considered him an undesirable alien...
This was long after he had written the Origin of Species. Darwin was born in 1809. He went to Shrewsbury School, then Edinburgh, then Cambridge. He was regarded during this period as an ineffectual student, a boy of vague intents, a sporting blood. He first planned on medicine for a career, then thought of entering the ministry. But something happened that changed his life and the history of the world. A Captain (later Admiral) Fitz-Roy was leaving England to tour the world in a boat called The Beagle. Darwin wanted to go. His father forbade the trip provisionally...