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...with the Customs Bureau. Robinson never quite knew what his duties were, and in 1909, when incoming Taft appointees demanded that he perform them, he resigned. But he was never again reduced to a mean struggle for subsistence. His verse flowed out increasingly in long dramatic poems, such as Merlin, Lancelot, and Tristram, written around the Arthurian legends. In time, he won three Pulitzer Prizes (1922, 1925, 1927), lived to see Tristram become such a bestseller in 1927 that it earned him royalties...
...Although the Mormon church has banned polygamy since 1890, some fundamentalist heretics practice it in defiance of church and state. Last week, Arizona authorities were trying hard to catch one of them. The fugitive: George Merlin Dutson, excommunicated middle-aged Mormon...
...Merlin Bishop of Avon, international representative of the United Auto Workers, C.I.O.; Carl A. Gray of Farmington, manufacturer of electronics equipment; Mrs. Robert Mahoney of Hartford, trustee of the University of Connecticut; Mrs. Clifford F. Thompson of Wallingford, onetime state president of the P.T.A...
...experimental station, later chief experimental engineer. Always one for seeing projects through from drafting board to trial run, Hives tested new engines by driving them in racing cars. During World War II, as Rolls's managing director, he supervised the design and production of the famed Merlin engine that powered Mustang, Hurricane and Spitfire fighter planes...
...urgent request from Minister of Supply Lord Beaverbrook: Would Rolls make a new high-powered tank engine? Hives said no. When the Beaver persisted, Hives said yes, if the government would give him a credit of ?1,000,000 and let him strictly alone. Hives adapted the Merlin for tanks, made it the forerunner of the power plant in the Centurion...