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...settlement in that raw Mexican territory. His father Moses had dreamed of the project, died before he could carry it through. William Barrett Travis was an impetuous young Alabama lawyer-school-teacher who married one of his pupils, went to Texas to get away from her. Sam Houston, hard drinker and hard fighter, quit the Governorship of Tennessee and drifted to Texas because his aristocratic young wife had left him a few months after they were married...
...held a meeting last week to discuss ways & means of raising money, invited some of the city's best brains and fattest purses. Also present were Princeton's patriarchal Zoologist Edwin Grant Conklin and Columbia's learned Paleontologist William King Gregory. Up rose Lawyer Henry Sturgis Drinker, an Academy trustee...
...inherited? not of his own doings, but a God given talent." Nevin wrote a flimsy little Narcissus, later called it "nasty" but still thrilled to hear people whistle it in the streets. His most famed work, The Rosary, was written to a mawkish poem by a redoubtable California drinker and poker-player named Robert Cameron Rogers. Though The Rosary sold less than 100,000 copies from its publication in 1898 until its composer died, its total sales reached...
Slight, handsome Dave Merwin, 35, was something of a wild man, a jolly drinker, an able cartoonist, at Harvard. After college and a round-the-world trip, with tiger-hunting in Indo-China, he quieted down, succeeded his ailing uncle as publisher of the Pantagraph. A licensed transport pilot, he flies about in his orange-colored airplane called Scoop, loves to whisk his small son & daughter 100 miles or so for an ice cream soda. To the Cowles team. Publisher Merwin takes financial wizardry and a profound knowledge of all newspaper mechanical operations which both brothers lack...
...University recognized that the public was not benefitting from the Drinker machine to as great an extent as desired because the price was prohibitive, and to prevent similar situations from arising passed rules forbidding the patenting of any invention that may affect the health of individuals or the public unless the patent be taken out in the name of the University. It was on these ethical grounds and also on the existence of similar machines since 1876 that Emerson based his defense...