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Eventually frightened, Lena Campbell called in Dr. Charles Salo Jackson who has been practicing around Edison the past 20 years. "Strangest case I've ever seen," said Dr. Jackson. He advised asking Dr. Harding to take a look at the case...
When Truck Driver Campbell first became loquacious, Lena, his blonde, 26-year-old wife, was astonished. He had been a quiet, moody fellow all the eight years they were married. Lately he had begun to worry because of trouble with other Columbus truck drivers. Maybe, she thought, the time last year he bumped his head while unloading butter had something to do with his sudden talkativeness. She took him up to his parents' home at rustic little Edison a few miles north of Columbus...
...Lessons, and I find it hard to stop him. What shall I do?-Despairing Pastor. Answer: You have a problem. Organists with insufficient training like to do those things. The flip of the finger over several keys, known as glissando, has been popularized by the radio comedians Jake and Lena, and organists devoid of taste are doing it in church. The same thing is true of the man who injects shaving-parlor chords into a hymn, and Sweet Adeline harmonization, and dominant-seventh Amens, and too much tremolo. . . . I should not permit him to play dizzy chromatics, or anything else...
...revenue (Northern Illinois) ; Jean W. Wittich, first woman state budget commissioner (Minnesota) ; Earlene White, first postmistress of the U. S. Capitol Building. At the Palmer House two days later another conclave of women began : the International Congress of Women of a Century of Progress. To preside over it came Lena Madesin Phillips, Manhattan lawyer, organizer and onetime president of the Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs. She opened the conference with the gavel used by Susan B. Anthony. To help settle the conference question, "How best can we serve our common cause-civilization?" came Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman...
True to the conductor's premonition, Magowan's mad driving was too much for the old engine: a side rod let go, flailed the engineer to death. During the long wait for the relief engine Jason and Lena decided to make a run for it to the nearest town. But a railroad detective chased them, shot Lena. Jason's dream of freedom collapsed; he knew he would go home to his wife. Knox's star witness was gone but he got his old mistress back again. The remains of old Magowan, covered with a blanket, were...