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...Author was born twelve feet below sealevel, at Rotterdam, Holland, has grown in 50 years to citizenship in the U. S., a ward boss-ship in the republic of letters and a large (6 ft. 3 in.), fat (225 Ib.) size. As with many big men, his voice is unexpectedly high. At literary teas, to which he grimly goes, he suffers, becomes galvanized with shyness. He speaks English with a slight accent that sounds Irish rather than Dutch. Van Loon arrived in the U. S. at 21, was graduated from Cornell (1905), became successively newshawk, Ph.D., lecturer. A. P. correspondent...
...which the momentous Uchida speech was made, was to draft a relief program for Japanese farmers who cannot sell their produce, who must pay twice the taxes of city merchants and whose suicide rate has doubled since 1931. At present Japanese prices, a Japanese housewife can buy 41 Ib. of ripe, juicy tomatoes for 10?...
...concerts of the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Albert Coates tried to look unconcerned during the prolonged applause, making only the vaguest of gestures. Then he bobbed ebulliently over his orchestra, resembling greatly a Roman emperor, although illness last spring had reduced his weight from 240 lb. to 200 Ib. From night to night thereafter he presided over such various Stadium doings as four all-Russian programs, the Hall Johnson Choir, the Albertina Rasch dancers, an all-Gershwin concert?all with the practiced versatility which has made him, if not the most exciting of maestros, a thoroughly dependable musician...
...Jacksonville, N. C., a depositor lugged 120 Ib. of cash to the Bank of Onslow. Cashier James Collins spent two days counting $800 in coins smaller than 25¢ pieces...
...send forth cod to hungry consumers, last week Gorton-Pew opened a new plant which can turn out 48,000 10-oz. cans of ready-to-fry codfish cakes a day. Machinery does everything from slicing the potatoes, boiling them with the fishflakes, to mixing them in batches (194 Ib. of potatoes to 97 Ib. of fish...