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...Baby Ruth), Florsheim Shoes, Paris Garters, Rosehill Cemetery, Sheaffer Pens. Well known in circles other than advertising, he sits on Chicago's Board of Education. His interest in public affairs derives from his long friendship with Indiana's late Democratic Boss Tom Taggart. Boss Taggart controlled French Lick Springs, and the McJunkin Agency still has its account (though it lately lost the Associated Pluto Water business to H. W. Kastor & Sons...
...insists that Leach careen the Black Swan on a certain island's beach and scrape her bottom clean for the fast fight to come. On the island trouble brews. Leach makes goat's eyes at Priscilla, would murder de Bernis but for his men, who want a lick at that Spanish treasure. When finally Leach has decided to seize de Bernis, torture his information out of him, de Bernis picks a fight with him, kills him, just as Sir Henry Morgan's boats sail into the bay. In the dénouement de Bernis turns...
Harvard will establish a separate camp and will conduct its experiments apart from direct association with any other university, although it is expected that nearly a dozen colleges will set up similar camps in the path of total darkness. The headquarters of Lick Observatory, of Mount Hamilton, California, will be located in Conway, New Hampshire. The period of totality of the eclipse, will be from 98 to 100 seconds, although partial darkness will obscure the entire afternoon...
...Jeffers' birthplace was Pittsburgh, in 1887. From North Ireland had come his paternal grandfather. His father, an LL.D. learned in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, had married an orphan 23 years, his junior. John Robinson Jeffers was the first fruit; the second. Hamilton Jeffers, now engaged in astronomical work at Lick Observatory, came seven years later...
...industry. The star pupil of what Batalov calls the "Children's Commune" is a stubby youth named Mustapha (Tzyvan Kyrla), with the figure of a baboon, the face of a gargoyle and the courage of a juvenile Lenin. Smartest of pickpockets when he roved the Moscow streets, Mustapha helps lick his cronies into social shape and is pleased with plans to build 50 mi. of railroad so that the Children's Collective can import raw material to provide work for idle hands. A model of regeneration, his great moment arrives when Fomka Zhigan, onetime Fagin of the wild boys, establishes...