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Since 1795, when Louisiana's Etienne de Bore grew the first U.S. sugar cane for commercial use, cane crops have been harvested, like cotton, by hand. Negroes mow their way through the cane fields with knives like tropical machetes. Efforts have been made to mechanize the reaping of both cotton and sugar. Several cotton-pickers have been invented which have proved that they can pick cotton, but their practical efficiency and adaptability have been seriously disputed, and they have so far made no visible inroads on the South's labor economy...
...years after he retired from the Cavendish directorship. Third director was Sir Joseph John Thomson, who held the post for 35 years, discovered the electron while studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters in an old laboratory, is said by irreverent students never to take a bath. He got his Nobel Prize...
POEMS NEW AND SELECTED-Melville Cane-Harcourt, Brace ($2). One hundred and fourteen dissolutely inconsequential lyrics by an American connoisseur of Imagism...
...event twice in a row. Because he had no likely prospect, as he went the rounds of the Grand Circuit this summer Horse Owner Sheppard kept one eye on his own stable, the other on his fellow horsemen's. At Agawam three weeks ago, he saw William Cane's Hambletonian entry, McLin, outstep the highly touted Long Key in the third heat of the American Stake (after a miserable showing in the two previous heats). As quick as a man could say David Harum, Owner Sheppard offered Owner Cane $20,000 for McLin, had him hitched...
...lengths in front, railbirds fancied they might be wrong. At the end of the second heat they saluted a great horse. McLin had won in straight heats (2:02 ¼, 2:02¾). To Owner Sheppard went $19,944, just $56 less than the amount he had paid Bill Cane the week before...