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In an editorial titled, inappropriately enough, "Brass Tacks," there appears the following sentence: "A prominent Oklahoma coach recently told the press that the members of his squad were making more money than he was." I have followed the sports pages quite closely, and have seen no approximation of such a...
It was at this haunted houseparty that she made her most brilliant capture- Colonel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society. Honest, credulous Henry Steel Olcott, part-time journalist, a Civil War colonel who had recently been admitted to the New York bar, was the perfect front man. A year later...
The new commission, which, as Lilienthal said, "will be pioneering in uncharted fields," includes, besides the former T.V.A. administrator, a physicist, a banker, an editor and a government bureaucrat. By law they are required to devote all their working hours to the atom problem. Except for Lilienthal and Sumner Pike...
Network managers also reported that they do not intend to devote this evening to election returns but will have all the latest results on their regular midnight news summary.
Twelve years ago, the most exalted playwright in the history of the U.S. theater formally bowed off his worldwide stage. Eugene O'Neill intended to devote himself exclusively to one of the most ambitious dramatic projects ever undertaken: the writing of a cycle of nine plays. Purpose: to dramatize...