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Articles and illustrations were as breezy as a college cheering section, as offhand and undocumented as a street-corner argument. William Hard, seasoned, voluble Washington correspondent and radio com mentator, wrote the leading piece on the Chiselers; very brisk and readable...
Eliot: Holsapple, l.e.; Ward, l.t.; At 'ood, Hyman, l.g.; Bond, Brown, c.; 'cannell, r.g.; Loring, r.t.; Capron, r.e.; Robinson, q.b.; Koch, Dennison, Com'ock, Thacher, h.b.; Whitney...
...upper Broadway property; or, the strain which his celebrated 95,000-word decision on the Erlanger common-law marriage case put upon him (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931). In any case, informed Tammanyites believe, Boss Curry will pay for his stupidity in running O'Brien a second time. Only "Com-missioner" Murphy retained the Hall's leadership after a defeat at the polls. And Curry is no Murphy. Probable successor to Curry is Edward J. ("Eddie") Ahearn, 39, leader of a lower East Side district, inherited in 1921 from his father, whom Charles Evans Hughes as Governor removed from...
...Author. Shy. solitary son of an Irish sailor. John William Navin Sullivan has always been more interested in ''reality" than in real life. He thinks "the most horrible of lives is that of a lawyer and. next to that, a business man." Working for an electrical manufacturing com-pany roused his interest in science, gave him the idea of putting himself through University College. London. He went to the U. S., which he found ''very agreeable,'' left because life there lacked "mental excitement." After the War, he became science editor of the London Athenaeum...
...crew to cast off. The huge bag rose groggily about 10 ft. It wobbled sideways across the airdrome, but not an inch higher would it go. The ground crew dragged the bag back; part of the heavy apparatus was unloaded. Still no luck. After two hours of struggle, Air Com-mander Garankidze wearily ordered: "De- flate." The ripcord was yanked and the silvery bag billowed to earth. C. A German racing balloon, blown by a stiff wind clear out of Germany and across the North Sea, landed on the English coast. Its crew of three suffered first a ducking, then...