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Excess fat may be a disease, like appendicitis or measles, and then should not be fought by diet or massaging machines (Dr. Maxmilian Kern of Chicago...
Sweet Adeline. Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II offered last week their show Sweet Adeline, lampooning softly the notions of the Nineties in a gay and rambling history of which the heroine was a Broadway nightingale, singing with the thorn in her stuffed bosom...
Laggard students who flunk and repeat courses cost more to educate than smart ones who pass everything. This is manifestly unfair in a public school-system in which each student should benefit from the same amount of the public funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money...
Last week, however. Inventor Bosch found himself legally excluded from his U. S. markets. During 1917 hysteria Bosch Magneto Co. of New York was one of the many "enemy owned" companies which were sold at public auction by the U. S. Alien Property Custodian. One Martin Kern purchased it for $4,500,000,* resold it soon after to American Bosch Magneto Corp. which had incorporated for the purpose of buying Kern's Bosch stock. In 1921 Inventor Bosch initiated a new attack on U. S. markets and incorporated the Robert Bosch Magneto Co. to sell German-made Bosch products. Hence...
...much is this book worth?" The gestures tell how much it is worth to famed Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, Harry Marks, Gabriel Wells or some other gentleman who collects books for profit or passion. Dr. Rosenbach (Alice In Wonderland inan) raised his hand vertically many times at the Kern sale* but three times he kept it in his pocket. Three times he refused to go on with the bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley's Queen Mob, $68,000; Lamb's contribution to Hone...