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Nova explained that in the bewildering aftermath of the fight he had not read what the sportswriters had written about him. It was just as well, remarked Superior Court Judge Newcomb Condee, because "if Mr. Flaherty had written his column the day after the fight, Mr. Nova would have had to sue a thousand writers." Nova freely admitted that his "cosmic punch" and his well-publicized visits to Yoga Expert "Oom the Omnipotent" were the result of a pressagent's imagination, but he was certainly not a coward. To prove it, Nova's lawyers read into the record...
Little Laborers. At first, Teacher Janvier had wanted to be a writer. Though she could never see a blackboard, she managed to get through Newcomb College and to take an M.A. in English at Tulane. Then a friend offered her a job as a local factory inspector in charge of investigating child laborers to see if they were of legal age to work. "It was amazing," she recalls, "how people would try to change the records so that their children could go to work before they were 14. But even those who were 14 were pitiful little things who should...
...world's fourth known family case of female hemophilia was reported in Seattle by two University of Washington internists. Thomas Newcomb and Martin Matter. Their discovery, confirmed by standard tests: a seven-year-old girl who reversed the usual transmission pattern (mother-carrier-to-son) by inheriting the disease from her father's side of the family.* A paternal grand-uncle is known to have had bleeding problems in childhood; there is no maternal hemophilia history. The girl was hospitalized after loosening baby teeth caused excessive bleeding, is now responding favorably to standard treatment (i.e., injection of fresh...
Gleason, a Yale graduate of the Class of 1942, recently received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his contribution to the solution of "Hilbert's Fifth Problem." The problem has been important in mathematical theory for 50 years...
...Died. Newcomb Carlton, 84, longtime (1914-43) president and chairman of the board of Western Union; in White Plains, N.Y. Originator of the Night Letter to keep Western Union's wires humming full time, Carlton led the company's expansion from its far-strung web of Morse keys to a giant network of modern telegraphic printers. He scoffed at "stuffed shirts" in business, made a point of never lecturing his messenger boys on the rewards of hard work. Rather: "It's the breaks. Success depends upon which side of the street you were walking...