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...septuagenarian's silky grey beard, spread over his hospital blanket, jerked each time he gasped the oxygen which an electric motor blew upon his face. Another midnight passed, and attendants of Brooklyn's Jewish Hospital left Aaron Handler, dying of heart disease, alone for a while. Then a dull boom from his room recalled nurses and internes on a dead run. They found Aaron Handler's beard a shriveling, stinking torch fanned by the breeze of oxygen. Whether the electric pump emitted a combustive spark, or whether his beard generated a spark by rubbing against the woolen...
...seldom been found in the same school. Edgar Lee Masters was a gruff, hardbitten, Kansas-born lawyer whose poems were bitter epitaphs on the wasted lives of a small town. Carl Sandburg, cheerful, intuitive, sentimental, had worked as a porter in a barber shop, sceneshifter in a theatre, truck-handler in a brickyard, a dishwasher, harvest hand, Social-Democratic Party organizer, newspaperman. As Edgar Lee Masters followed Spoon River Anthology with poems cut in the same pattern, but increasingly dry and progressively longer, Sandburg followed Chicago Poems with his songs of labor in Smoke and Steel, with tributes...
...brace mate, Air Circus. There was pathos in the next heat. Out came Oil Tycoon Jacob France's big pointer, Kremlin, winner of many a lesser stake, to try once more for the blue ribbon of bird dogdom. But his seven years hung heavy upon him. When famed Handler Chesley Harris released him at the starting signal, Kremlin just stood there. Then he tried to start, but he had only three legs. A tendon had tied up. He hobbled out 75 yd. from the gallery, turned and looked back apologetically. Handler Harris had to take...
Coach Wes Fesler has made two changes in his Varsity lineup. Captain Leavy White, freed from injuries, returns to his forward post, and Arnold Litman will pair up with Vernan Struck at the guard positions. Although Litman is small, Fesler considers him the best ball handler on the squad. Kept back at first by early season injuries, he has shown so much improvement lately that he will rate a regular berth...
...human flotsam. The eye-pattern idea was suggested to him by Dr. Isadore Goldstein, ophthalmologist of Mount Sinai Hospital, who in working out the system took care of the anatomical angle. Drs. Simon and Goldstein were joined by a small grey man named Allan Broms, an expert handler of charts and graphs...