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Shame on you TIME . . . My husband is a young physician in his fourth postgraduate year following medical school. The amount of money he makes isn't worth mentioning. He doesn't complain (and neither do I), but no one can pay him enough for the amount of time he puts in, either now or in the future. That isn't particularly why he's doing it. You would like him to go to Africa and mine diamonds I take it. He would be delighted to go to China and study disease (they have so much there...
Oklahoma's new law making women ligible for jury duty brought some sharp comment from quid-rolling ex-Governor 'Alfalfa Bill" Murray. The 81-year-old ather of the present governor, Johnston Murray, and president of the State Con-titutional Convention in 1906, croaked lis objections: "It isn't right to lock women up with men in a jury room and make hem stay all night together. They won't quit till they make it legal for women to go into men's toilets. That's what they'll be after next...
...divorced the grocer, but she remembered the tomatoes, even when she went to work selling securities in Wall Street. In 1934, when a tariff sent the price of Italian tomatoes skyrocketing, Tillie began to think of growing them in the U.S. Everybody told her it was impossible ("the soil isn't right"). But on a trip to Italy, she got seed and talked an Italian importer into staking $50,000 on a project to grow them in California. There, she persuaded farmers to undertake the experiment. It succeeded; pear-shaped tomatoes now make up about 10% of California...
...Benjamin F. Wright, President of Smith, told the CRIMSON yesterday "I haven't seen it yet, and I have no idea of his evidence. If he has any. I suppose he isn't very careful about his evidence...
Cicero could be considered "a conniving lawyer" as well as a great statesman: "Many of his works represent professional law at its very highest. But it's rather unfair to ask a professional lawyer to present the whole truth and nothing but the truth, because that isn't what he is supposed to do . . ." Homer suffers equally from misrepresentation. "He's really very witty," said Highet, "but has he been taught that way? He's always presented straight-faced...