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Help from the Clinic. In Manhattan, Consolidated Edison, Standard Oil (NJ.) and others have joined to underwrite a local industrial alcoholism clinic for their employees. Eastman Kodak and International Harvester have their own in-plant programs for finding alcoholics, also contribute to community clinics for treating them. Allis-Chalmers has set up an alcoholics control team of welfare workers, psychiatrist, attorney, "problem counselor" and "alcoholic counselor...
...Mansion, by William Faulkner. Despite awkwardness, even sloppiness, in the writing, this last installment of the Snopes trilogy (earlier novels: The Hamlet, The Town) remains a smoldering personal testament to the worst in the American South and the worst in man. Edison, by Matthew Josephson. An able biography of the deaf, eccentric, agnostic genius who may not have been the world's greatest inventor, but who had no equal as an inventor-promoter...
...full of newspapers, Tom tried to swing on to the departing train. He would have fallen under the wheels if a trainman had not hauled him aboard by the ears. Something "snapped" in the boy's head, and his deafness may have started at that moment. Years later, Edison wrote: "I haven't heard a bird sing since I was twelve years...
...could hear distinctly the click and clatter of telegraph keys, and Tom Edison left home at 16 for the wandering life of the 19th century telegrapher. During the Civil War and the years of the Reconstruction, Edison drifted from Ontario to Tennessee, living in poor boardinghouses and working in shabby Western Union offices, where he rigged up devices to electrocute roaches and rats. When he was 22, Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street...
...empirical style was deeply shared by his associates. The flavor of the man and his time was caught by George Bernard Shaw, who worked briefly for an Edison company in London in 1879 and whose novel, The Irrational Knot, had an Edisonian hero. Edison's American employees, said Shaw, were "free-souled creatures, excellent company; sensitive, cheerful and profane; liars, braggarts and hustlers." Every one of them, Shaw noted, "adored Mr. Edison as the greatest man of all time in every possible department of science, art and philosophy...