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...quick to proclaim Bloch a genius. He got a job teaching at the David Mannes School, went from there to Cleveland, thence to San Francisco. His children settled in New York - Suzanne who teaches music, Lucienne who sculpts and paints, Ivan who is an electrical engineer. But the grind for a living again gave Bloch the feeling that he was a man without a country. The music he was writing (America, Helvetia) added little to his name. He was desperate when he relinquished valuable manuscripts for the sake of a ten-year endowment from the rich Stern heirs in California...
...than held his own in the forward line against much heavier men. He had learned the game from the English at school in China, where he was born in 1901 in a family which counts 14 generations of ministers, back to 1493. They remember that, without being a "greasy-grind," Charley Woodbridge was always near the head of his class in studies and that without ever being a meddlesome "Christer" he was quietly, sincerely, and it seemed merrily, pious...
...Islands have long had a heavy axe to grind with some of the gentlemen from Nevada and Iowa, etc., who take up residence periodically in Washington. The Territory particularly resents it when full-blooded Americans start talking about "those American possessions, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Hawaii." The loyal American Islanders have an extreme aversion toward being "possessed," even when the United States is the "possessor," for the same reason that the multi-racial jury in the Fortescue-Massie case was royally irked when Clarence Darrow talked to it "as if we were a group of Middle Western farmers...
...their rise is more their day than the politicians'. A less ambitious but much abler and more scholarly work than Who Rides America? (TIME, Feb. 26), The Robber Barons will take its place on many a carefully considered library shelf. Though Author Josephson has an ax to grind, its edge is no longer considered socially dangerous. And though, like a good Jew, he keeps his hat on in these sacred precincts, few will hear any bees buzzing within it. ". . . We have tried in so far as possible to write of them [the Robber Barons] without anger, to paint them...
...with A's in physics and mathematics, a B in chemistry, D's in history and English. First two years he lived at famed Miss Mooney's at No. 5 Linden St., hard by Hasty Pudding which he was not asked to join. No grind, he worked hard but quickly, spent most of his hours in the laboratory. But he found time to help edit the Crimson, dance with the "Baby Brats" at famed Brattle Hall. He did not seek popularity and few of his classmates, including Junius Spencer Morgan, Sumner Welles, Nicholas Roosevelt, Gilbert Seldes, noticed...