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...complications from an abdominal aneurysm; in New Orleans. A school dropout at 13, Ball was working as a salesman on the West Coast when Alfred du Pont, having married Ball's sister in 1921, hired him to run a Du Pont-owned tomato-canning plant. After Du Font's death in 1935, Ball took over the management of his estate, enlarging it to include the St. Joe Paper Co., two railroads and vast real estate loldings in Florida and Georgia...
...actress and Rose is a toothpick of a play. This sense of imbalance sets the tone of the evening. Jackson possesses a feral magnetism; the play is nerveless, somnolent, inert. She is direct; the play is diffuse. In vocal inflection and delivery, she is a wicked font of wit and irony; the play is parched for either...
...early as 1640, for example, Cambridge had acquired the first printing press north of Mexico City. An Englishman, the Rev. Josse Glover, brought a font of types, a printing press and a large stock of paper in England in that year and set sail for Cambridge. He died, but the press fared better, and soon it was operating under Harvard's auspices. The first books off the press--The Bay Psalm Book, and Eliot's Indian Bible...
...Lewis Font, a Vietnam veteran, told the crowd that Dr. Benjamin Spock and other anti-war activists had been arrested in Boston ten years ago for "counseling, aiding and abetting" students to resist the draft...
...Therefore I counsel, aid and abet you to refuse to register," Font told the cheering crowd...