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...Pretty Tune. The typewriter's future was obscure in its infancy. Not even Inventor Sholes had faith in it. But Promoter James Densmore. like Sholes a former newspaperman, believed in it "from the topmost corner of my hat to the bottommost head of the nails of my boot heels." He wanted to play Sholes' "literary piano" to the tune of a million dollars...
Last week was historic in U. S. politics. It was the week when the candidates for the U. S. Presidency defined different, but equally new, relationships with their parties. Franklin Roosevelt irritably relegated the Democratic Party organization to the bottommost column of his cam paign calculations (see col. 1). Wendell Willkie in Colorado Springs cordially received G. O. P. politicos, listened politely, sent them away knowing that to him as well the Republican Party's formal, professional organism would be incidental in the 1940 campaign...
...latest fangled radio sets in areas around New York City, Boston, Washington, Columbus (Ohio), Chicago and Milwaukee, nowadays enjoy radio entertainment that is static-free, interference-free, does not wobble, fade or burst at the seams. The enthusiasts say that they hear music faithful to the topmost tweet, the bottommost woof; that speech seems to come from the next chair, instead of the next telephone booth; that if an announcer should scratch a match, listeners would hear it burst into flame; that between numbers there is no hum, no crackle, just black, velvety nothing. Said one marveling first listener...
...lured from the narrow path of duty by anything so alien to his proper sphere of interest as a football game. At the first sign or the coming of the Hanoverian horde nothing could save it, and last night its remains were buried by its sorrowing owner in the bottommost cellar of Widener...