Word: fiske
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...Line is the current Harvard Prize Play. Taking the in teresting character of a working hobo, the fascinating theme of wanderlust, Playwright Henry Fisk Carlton scrambles out a play that, seemingly, is bound for nowhere in particular. Slug, a roving farmhand, marries a hired girl. She shrinks from announcing to him the expected advent of Slug Jr., wherefore he, unhampered by consciousness of impending paternal responsibilities, takes to the high road once more. When he returns after seven years, he discovers his daughter (surprise!) and his former wife in the home of another man, a sedentary creature who has taken...
...wheelbase is that of the Ford and Chevrolet, 100 in. The overall height is 5 ft., 8 in. with a low centre of gravity due to an 8% in. axle-clearance and the standard 56 in. tread. Tiny balloon tires, smaller even than Ford balloons, have been furnished by Fisk...
...moderator is the son of onetime Negro slaves; is 58; a graduate of Fisk University and of Yale (Bachelor of Divinity) ; holds "progressive" rather than modernist religious views...
...contracts for tire fabrics, and Akron folk knew that if he did, he would drive a sharp bargain advantageous to his company. At least he made a huge deal, which was consummated last week in Manhattan. The contract was between President Work and President Harry T. Dunn of the Fisk Rubber Co., on the one side, and R. E. Hightower and his son, W. H. Hightower, the Georgia textile people. It provided for $100,000,000 worth of cord tire fabric for delivery in the next ten years and gave the Goodrich people a partnership in the Hightower interests. This...