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...director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, big, pipe-smoking Cyrus Ching had stuck his lanky legs under countless negotiating tables, earned himself a reputation for homespun, amiable integrity, helped solve many a minor strike, some major ones. Both management & labor trusted him. Forty-six years ago, working as an equipment supervisor on Boston's Elevated Railway Co., he once almost electrocuted himself repairing an overhead wire, blowing out every fuse in the system. He came to a week later, badly burned and partially blind, lay in bed for 15 weeks. Nobody from the company ever came...
...perk up many of the 1,000.slowly expiring small unaffiliated stations of the U.S. with a daily infusion of ten hours of "live" and recorded shows. Hoping for a network of 350 stations (and needing 200 to break even), Progressive promised a familiar formula: soap operas, Hollywood gossip, a homespun philosopher named Cottonseed Clark, and such singers as Mel Torme and Connie Haines...
...appeared at officers' clubs. She died in 1943; he got the news just as he was about to go into battle at Bougainville. He married again in 1947, has become a contented homebody. Of an evening, he likes his wife to read to him from the poems of homespun versifier Edgar A. Guest...
...much of this sort of homespun philosophy-and an attack on Walt Whitman as a dirty-minded fellow-makes it pretty clear that Philosopher Lin Yutang is not the best man to evaluate the wisdom of America. Along with his own running commentary, he has gotten together a narcotic collection of bromides from reputable pens; if it proves anything, it proves only that a bromide looks a lot better clothed in a mandarin coat than it does in a Palm Beach suit...
...together with Alexander Agassiz and founded the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute for study of marine life, Undoubtedly the world's greatest expert on jellyfish about which he once wrote a monograph, Bigelow was especially able at getting around the multi-syllabled terminology of oceanography and explaining the science in homespun style...