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...through the forest to Youngstown, Ohio, Son William went there to study Latin with a clergyman. One day his devout mother knelt in her yard to pray that Son William might be educated for the ministry. Passing on horseback, Rev. Thomas Hughes heard her prayer, offered to take the lad free to his Old Stone School at nearby Darlington. William worked his way through Washington College, was licensed as a Presbyterian minister, branched out as a schoolmaster. Hired in 1826 by fledgling Miami, he arrived on his horse, in a sombre black coat and stovepipe hat, his saddlebags bulging with...
...court," Attorney Ernst declared: "It is quite clear that respondent [the AP] is not an eleemosynary institution, but is a business association through which member newspapers make greater profits through decreased costs. Assessments vary in the same manner as dividends." For Mr. Davis' manufacturing claim, Mr. Ernst Lad just as ingenious a rebuttal: "News, in its intangible form, is carried over the air by wires; in printed form, it is carried over the ground by rail. The difference in means of transmission cannot affect or diminish the power of Congress to regulate respondent's activities...
Mahmoud is a son of Blenheim. Smirke is the jockey who, on Windsor Lad in 1934, equaled the record-2 min. 34 sec.- for the ½;-mile Derby course. Last week, after a delay at the post which alarmed radio announcers scheduled to follow the account of the race at 3 p. m. with the departure of the Queen Mary (see p. 17) at 3:15, the field got away smoothly. On a track baked rocky hard, following the Aga Khan's instructions, Jockey Smirke rode a waiting race. First Carioca, then Mrs. James Shand's Thankerton took...
...scholarship to a public school (Christ's Hospital) where he learned to be ashamed of his background. He sums up his youthful self as "part snob, part coward, part sentimentalist ... an unattractive personality." But he went up to Oxford with a reputation as a bright lad. His chances for a first-class degree went glimmering when, vacationing in Paris, he fell in love with a French cocotte. He spent two vacations with her, let her lure him into an engagement, then ran away. In Paris he also got the idea of starting a literary magazine called Rhythm, went back...
...interesting even if they are not real. The portrayal of the G-men in TIME rings truer than any, I am sure. I went to school with Hoover. We men who received C's called Hoover, who received A's, "fatty pants." In my class was a lad named Clyde Tolson [special agent in charge of the Washington bureau], Hoover's right-hand man, and if TIME or FORTUNE ever really gets behind the scenes you'll have to find even a better word than "able" for Clyde Tolson. . . . Incidentally Hoover is two exceptions. First...