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...cartoon series. Two of his inventions are now in production: a coathanger with attached compartment to hold mothballs or perfume; a truck tailgate which lowers to receive freight, elevates it to the truck's level. Another Gross invention, not in production, is a combination ashtray & pipe-bowl cleaner which operates like the orange-juice extractors used by soda fountains. Mr. Gross's father was an inventor. His son. 6, and daughter, 11, invent things like bedside bookracks...
...that he had definite proof in the shape of anonymous letters that some of them were breaking training. He proceeded to ask all of them to report any future defalcations along this line on the part of their teammates, and concluded with a sweeping exhortation to fight for cleaner sports and dear old Harvard. Thus was brought of a climax a subject on which certain episodes in the football season had already focused attention...
...compatriots, Mr. Otkar, Manhattan antique-dealer, shut up shop. His principal remaining asset, one large antique bed, was a problem which the timely arrival of Morris Rosenberg, a penniless fiddler, helped him to solve. Together they lugged it to Central Park. A lucky encounter with a Mr. Sweeney, street-cleaner with a yearning to play the violin, got them a D. S. C. hut to shelter them. Daytimes, Rosenberg fiddled for pennies on street corners, Mr. Otkar prowled around, stole occasional eggs. Evenings, Rosenberg taught Mr. Sweeney how to fiddle. When Mr. Otkar came back one night with Elizabeth...
...growing participation of the college man in politics will make politics cleaner," said Joseph B. Ely, Governor of Massachusetts in an interview last night. "Politics and the administration of city, state, and national government need the foresight and culture that the college man will carry to them. The college man has had the best advantages of education, and with that background his ability to understand public questions should be greatly increased. It is this understanding, culture, and sense of fair play that the college bestows upon a man that, when taken into political life, will render politics a cleaner institution...
...badly Anglo-Irish relations were bruised when Prime Minister MacDonald and President de Valera buffeted each other verbally behind the trim white-framed door of No. 10 Downing Street (TIME, June 20) was revealed to the Empire last week by Secretary for Dominions James Henry ("Jim'') Thomas, onetime engine cleaner...