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Better than any living man, Senator Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi represents in his own spindle-legged, round-shouldered, freckle-faced person the modern history of the Democratic Party. For all but a fraction of the years since the fledgling Republican Party rose to power in 1860, the lot of the Democrats in national politics has been to denounce and deplore. For all but a fraction of his 17 Senatorial years, Pat Harrison, a Democrat by temperament as well as by birth and conviction, has played his Party's historic role with superb skill and enjoyment...
...book-length biography of Gorrie has ever been written. His story was told last week in Scientific Monthly by Professor George Byron Roth of George Washington University. Born in Charleston, S. C. in 1803, John Gorrie studied medicine in the North - exactly where, no one knows. He began practice in the seaport of Apalachicola, Fla., took such an interest in municipal affairs that he became postmaster, city treasurer, city councillor, mayor. Fever descended on Apalachicola every summer and Dr. Gorrie found it impossible to treat his patients in the hot weather. The earnest young physician thought the best thing...
...most versatile American scholars, Jones has written poetry, plays, a bibliography of Byron's works, a biography of Moses Colt Tyler, and a study of American and French culture (1750-1848). At present he holds a Guggenheim Fellowship for research work on a biography of Tom Moore. It is expected that he will conduct a course on the novel at Harvard...
Actress Cornell has surrounded herself with a high-powered troupe of actors, among them Brian Aherne, Charles Waldron, Arthur Byron. Another excellent performance is turned in by Kent Smith as Dunois, the''Bastard of Orleans. He it is who witnesses Joan's first military miracle on the banks of the Loire, when the wind shifts so that the French may attack the English by surprise, thus starting the invaders out of the Kingdom and Joan on her way to the fires of martyrdom. As for peerless Actress Cornell, spectators found her full of the youthful fire that...
...father got him a job as solicitor's clerk in one of London's grimiest, soundest law firms, but Ben never intended to be anything so humdrum to him as a lawyer. Byron, lately dead at Missolonghi, was his hero. While still a law clerk, he began what he intended to be a brilliant literary career by writing a satirical society novel. Famed Publisher Murray fought shy of it, and Ben was cut to the quick. Wanting to get rich very quickly, he took a flyer in South American mining shares. was soon over his ears in debt...