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Watching yacht races is a bore. Consequently, the sport normally attracts about as many spectators as a good game of ticktacktoe. Colossus of yachting is the series of races for the America's Cup. Consequently, watching America's Cup races would be a colossal bore except for one fact. So many people think they want to see the America's Cup races that almost no one does. Last week, 50,000 people and about $1,000,000,000 worth of privately owned boats were bouncing up and down on the Atlantic Ocean, off Newport, R. I. Nearly...
Reason for all this fuss, aside from California's surpassing exuberance, was that the bridge was the world's greatest by practically every measurement-length of span, height, difficulty of achievement. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was conceived 20 years ago by Engineer Joseph Baermann ("Colossus of Roads'') Strauss and finally completed at a cost of eleven lives...
...undeniable prerogatives of great men is the right to forget about everyday things, to miss out on details of ordinary existence that occupy the thoughts of petty men, men who lack the ability to bestride the world like a Colossus in their appointed tasks of human endeavor. A figure who has led the world in his interpretation of the Romantic poets, for instance, is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. But John Livingston Lowes displays the most lovable trait of complete indifference to the Harvard catalogue, and he has from time to time announced in his lectures that...
...Colossus. The last circus that tried to slide into Manhattan under the Ringling shadow was Sells-Floto. "Mr. John" stifled this competition in a characteristic fashion...
Even that lumbering colossus, U. S. Steel Corp., outdistanced most Wall Street dopesters, turning in a $20,000,000 fourth quarter with operations at 66.2% finished capacity. Profits for the full year footed up to $50,525,000, largest since 1930 and a phenomenal improvement over the piffling $1,146,000 earned last year. On the strength of this report and the involuntary aid of a flock of bears caught short of the stock, U. S. Steel was run up to $100 per share, par, highest price in six years...