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...from the house. As old Ben Franklin observed, "If you sit near the fire, you have that cold draft of uncomfortable air nipping your back and heels ... by which many catch cold, being scorched before, and, as it were, froze behind." Which is why he devised "the New-Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place"-better-known as the Franklin stove-which, he boasted, made his room twice as warm with a quarter as much wood as a conventional hearth. Franklin never patented his promethean invention, wishing to share its back-to-front benefits with the world, and a variety of stoves modeled...
...bedroom because he had something important to say. He was asked to wait until the next morning, and at breakfast he finally told Reagan, who quickly declined his offer to withdraw. "I'm not going to leave this convention with my tail between my legs," he told the Pennsylvanian, "and neither are you." But the disillusionment with Reagan that exploded when he chose Schweiker was there to the end. The previous afternoon a Northern Governor pleaded with Reagan to drop Schweiker from the ticket-with the Pennsylvania Senator sitting right beside them in the limousine. "I couldn...
Since February, rumors have floated that Britain was sending commissioners to America to negotiate a reconciliation. An influential Pennsylvanian, and now George Washington's adjutant general, Joseph Reed, wrote to his chief: "To tell you the truth, my dear Sir, I am infinitely more afraid of these commissioners than of their generals and armies. If their propositions are plausible, and behaviour artful, I am apprehensive they will divide us." (As is now believed, Admiral Lord Howe may have got from King George a commission to negotiate; see page...
CRIMSON-DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN--The Crimson flies to Philly today in search of its 431st victory in succession. It's in the bag. Crimson...
Last year, special recognition went out to the enthusiastic Daily Pennsylvanian sports staff. This year the staffs of The Columbia Daily Spectator and The Brown Daily Herald are so honored. The sports pages of both papers have developed and improved a great deal within the past year...