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...stable at the sign of the Swan and Hoop, Finsbury Pavement, Moorfields, married one Thomas Keats, her father's trusted head hostler and, a year later, bore him a son, John. This boy went to school till he was 17, was then bound apprentice to a surgeon, read Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance and the vivacity of his manners charmed...
Since the 17th Century, Science has recognized the phenomenon that enables people stone deaf to hear conversation if exceedingly loud repercussions occur at the same time. Utilizing this principle, Dr. Byron E. Eldred of Manhattan has invented an ear trumpet. His apparatus consists of a box which, attached to an electric socket, shouts into the ear a large noise, part click, part scream, part whir, not unlike that of an electric train. At a recent meeting of the New York Otological Society, Dr. Eldred presented his invention. The society was skeptical...
...self with light practice to date, Coach Farrell counts on hard work this week as sufficient to bring his time for the half under two minutes by Saturday night. Huggerty is sure of a place, having so far outclassed all competitors in 600-yard and half-mile time trials. Byron Cutcheon and Willard Tibbetts are at their best when running a mile, two miles, or cross country. Their problem is to develop speed in the half without tying up. The chief opponents on the Yale team will be Gulifuss, Banon, and Multer. Guilfuss and Bannon...
Small boys fight with sticks and stones, with mud, spitballs, hard peas. Not so gentlemen who have grown great on the good meat of dignity, the drink of influence. They well know that a tongue, derisively projected, cannot be readily wagged. Thus Byron Bancroft Johnson, President of the American (Baseball) League, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball tsar, joined conflict without resort to the grotesque methods of adolescence. Yet loud has been their struggle. The facts...
Since the inception of the American League of baseball clubs, 23 years ago, Byron Bancroft Johnson has been its President. As long ago as 1910, he signed a contract to serve in that post for 20 years, at a salary of $30,000 a year. For many, many years he was a sort of Grand Khan of the sport. He lias fought many battles during his career as President of the American League, serene in the confidence of his own ability to deal properly and effectively with whatever situation might arise...