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...Clifton Copley, Representative from Illinois (1911-23), bestrides the country editorially with one foot planted firmly on newspapers of Joliet, Aurora, Elgin and Springfield, Ill., and the toe of the other on three papers in San Diego, Calif, (see p. 34). Last week he set his California heel down on 16 more papers of communities around Los Angeles, where his wife was born. The seller of the 16 papers was Frederick William Kellogg...
...faintly famed as a newspaperman. Yet his writings for the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, 111. , were the nursery rhymes from which developed the majestic cadences of the Gettysburg Address. The newspaper with this notable tradition, now named the Illinois State Journal, has just passed to the control of Col. Ira Clifton Copley. One newspaper acquisition at a time is normally enough for growing publishers. Not so Col. Copley. He stretched half across a continent and added almost simultaneously the San Diego Union and Tribune to his pack* of papers...
...merely human; some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined not by a historian but by a novelist. Author Kostolanyi, a Hungarian who writes in German, well translated by Clifton P. Fadiman, makes him a weak man, a pathetic youth unable to learn how to live, "a bad poet and a bad ruler." Whether this is what Nero was in truth, no man can say. But his character, so presented, has the truth of fiction, the illusion of reality...
...perfect the apparatus required three years of experimenting by Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Clifton M. Tuttle of Eastman Kodak Co. research laboratories. The pictures they secured were like those of growing cancer cells recently reported from London (TIME, July 25). What had taken three minutes to show had taken 44 hours to photograph...
...assistant professors come to the University from posts at other institutions. Marshall Hertig, appointed Assistant Professor of Medical Entomology in the School of Public Health is now in China on leave from the University of Minnesota. Frederick Clifton Packard Jr. '20 returns to Harvard as Assistant Professor of Public Speaking after two years at Dartmouth, where he has been in charge of student dramatics. Dr. Hertig has been doing especially valuable world in China in his studies of the transmission of the disease known as Kala-azar. All these appointments are to take effect with the opening of the University...