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...possess outstanding qualities, I suppose they are good judgment, courage, industry, and a certain inborn genius." So once spoke Abram Edward Fitkin, 52, whose business consists primarily of buying and selling utility properties, who last week was once again negotiating a big deal with Samuel Insull...
...first novel, "Three Steeples", LeRoy Macleod has brought a poet's imagery and style coupled with an inborn sympathy for people close to the land. Such a novel as this must be traditionally heralded as "typically American" or perhaps, "as American as the earth from which its characters wrest their living", leaving to the reviewer's imagination a picture of brawny sons of toil, that solid backbone of the agricultural West and Middle West, that along with the sombrero and the pathos of the vanishing Indian form a part of the great American Tradition. Yet, however incomplete may be this...
With the heavyweight classes furnishing most of the thrills a crowd of about 300 people witnessed the first 13 bouts of the University boxing championships which began last night in Hemenway Gymnasium. Displaying an inborn skill at the manly art D. D. Carrick 24, Canadian American Champion scored a knockout victory over A. D. Robertson '33 in the 160-pound class, laying the Freshman low in the second round...
...course the subject of sex relations is one on which it is difficult to reason without overcoming strong and almost inborn prejudices. Nevertheless there is little to be gained in the long run by suppressing vital facts. Both Galileo and Darwin were bitterly reviled when they opposed traditional ideas with scientific discoveries. Yet their work is the basis of modern physics and biology...
...Author. Born and bred in Charleston, S. C., Author Heyward comes of a long line of planters, impoverished and stripped of their feudal rights after the Civil War. Evidence of his inborn understanding of the Negro was the novel Porgy. With the aid of his wife, a playwright by profession, the novel was dramatized and most successfully produced last year by the Theatre Guild...