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...baby Austin, called every day last week. The large blue trucks with cream paneling called three times. Along Philadelphia's swank, suburban Main Line, in & around socialite Hewlett, L. I. and in Reading, Pa. they stopped at the homes of William Wallace Atterbury, William Wistar Comfort, Mrs. Isaac Clothier Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and hundreds of others in which were 4,000 dogs, 30 cats and one raccoon. On each truck in large green letters were the words CANINE CATERING CO. above a small green Scottie. At each stop a gauntleted, high-booted young man hopped out with...
...group of lawmakers, these six Democrats and four Republicans were of mixed financial breeding: Senator David Reed from steelmaking Pittsburgh, Senator James Couzens from motor-making Michigan, Representative Allen Treadway from the bucolic Berkshires of Massachusetts, Representative Isaac Bacharach from sporty Atlantic City, Representative Sam Hill from the tall timbers of northern Washington, Representative Tom Cullen from the sidewalks of Brooklyn's Red Hook district, Senator Walter George from cotton-picking Georgia, Senator William King from silver-mining Utah and, most important of all. the two chiefs of the conference-for the Senate, a shrewd lawyer from Gulfport, Miss...
Before they could reach that conclusion even with the powerful wave mathematics developed by Germany's Erwin Schrodinger, Drs. George Braxton Pegram, John R. Dunning and Isidor Isaac Rabi had to lead their particles like circus animals through a complex series of hoops & hurdles. Beryllium powder was placed in a glass tube containing the radioactive gas radon. Alpha particles from the radon knocked neutrons out of the beryllium. First hurdle was a metal ring which deflected part of the neutron beam toward a cylindrical detection chamber less than an inch across, a half-inch deep. The chamber...
...Father Collins, a favored spectator, stood beside Sheriff Roscoe Lauderdale. In the hall below the trap through which the bodies would fall were about 150 Hernandoans who did not mind getting up early for such an occasion. As the noose was put around the neck of the first Negro, Isaac Howard, he said: ''Tell others of my kind never to attack none who don't belong to them. I believe in God." Then he began to sing "The Other Shore." The sheriff sprang the trap. Isaac Howard plunged through the floor, his song ended. Said the sheriff...
...land. But Hamilton's bank was to be a specie bank or no bank at all. The president, directors and company of the Bank of New York were organized with $500.000 capital. Among the directors were Nicholas Low, Comfort Sands and a doughty old sugar refiner named Isaac Roosevelt who later became the bank's president and whose first cousin four times removed was to become 25th President of the U. S. and whose great-great-grandson was to become 32nd President of the U. S. The directors picked for their first president, General Alexander Macdougall, a brisk...