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...Chicago Times Lawyer Clarence Darrow wrote: "I don't know what Christmas is all about anyhow. I think it is a humbug. ... As a holiday the Fourth of July had it beat a mile. On the Fourth I used to get up right after midnight to shoot off anvils. It made a loud sound. It was a lot of fun. Nobody knows why we celebrate Christmas-to keep up the old bunk I suppose. Some religious people think it is the day Christ was born. They don't know any more about it than a woodchuck." Mrs. Darrow...
...that magnetic field only a positively charged particle could be traveling upward and curving to the left. In all features the particle was the "anti-electron," the mathematical "hole" imagined by Dirac. Its life was brief-about a third of a millionth of a second. But Karl Kelchner Darrow of Bell Telephone Laboratories later pronounced it "probably the most famous individual corpuscle in the history of physics." Dr. Anderson called his discovery the positive electron, or positron...
...plus accrued interest at 12%, the Federal Government put up for sale Capone's gaudy island estate off Miami Beach, Fla. In Moab, Utah, his old armored limousine, on tour as a crime exhibit, was junked after a wreck. To University of Chicago students Lawyer Clarence Darrow observed: ''I think Al Capone got a terribly wrong deal ... an outrageous deal...
Interviewed in Cleveland's Union Terminal wearing a nightgown under his suit, famed old Lawyer Clarence Darrow hastily explained: "Whenever I leave Chicago for a night trip, I always wear one instead of undies and a shirt. Only way to travel on a sleeper. Can't be bothered doing the contortions in a berth...
Birthday. Famed Lawyer Clarence Darrow; 79. Said he: "At 20 a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's 79, he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. . . . The law is a horrible business. There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court...