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Knight's home base is in Akron, where he inherited the Beacon Journal from his father in 1933. Every month he travels to one of his newspapers for a day's consultation. He reads all his papers every day, insists that every editorial be initialed so that he...
Shields said he spends more than $400 on clothes each year. His wardrobe--which fills two closets, a dresser, a trunk, and a couple of suitcases--includes 20 sport coats, 15 pairs of trousers, 35 shirts, and 40 ties.
Danger in a Shoe. The brown recluse is well named, for it is a shy little creature and avoids light. It is, says Arkansas' Dr. Calvin J. Dillaha, "potentially more dangerous than the black widow because its appearance is insignificant to the point of innocence." It has a body...
Alfred Kazin's Starting Out in the Thirties, a short autobiography of his early years, is like the more successful of these after dinner conversations. Kazin, a literary critic and historian, wasn't an influential man of the thirties and his book is no walk through the corridors and closets...
Doctors and nurses sent messages from one floor to another on an antiquated dumbwaiter. Laboratory technicians had to huddle in the center of the lab because the inadequate lighting cast shadows in the corners. Offices and consulting rooms were not much bigger than closets, and flights of twisting stairs separated...