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...true that the devil finds work for idle hands to do, the No. i U. S. Mephistopheles is currently a mild little Philadelphian named Charles Darrow. Mr. Darrow's claim to the title, based on Monopoly, U. S. parlor craze of 1936, was last week reinforced when Parker Brothers began to distribute his second invention for idle hands. The new Darrow game is Bulls & Bears. Success of Monopoly, which was last week estimated to be in its sixth million and selling faster than ever, gave Bulls & Bears a pre-publication sale of 100,000, largest on record...
When Manhattan lawyers were no longer permitted or willing to enter the case of John Peter Zenger in 1735, an eminent Philadelphian named Andrew Hamilton was called in to defend Printer Zenger on charges of seditious libel of New York's Governor. Indignation which importation of a Philadelphia lawyer created among Manhattan burghers quickly changed to admiration, however, when Lawyer Hamilton's brilliant defense secured Printer Zenger's acquittal, established freedom of the U. S. Press. Also established was the folk-usage of "Philadelphia lawyer" as a synonym for shrewdness...
...Games well-publicized as high-strung, hard-boiled contests of national brawn, the fact that the original Peloponnesian games brought together poets and artificers as well as wrestlers, runners and javelin hurlers is of importance chiefly to classicists. But for years that fact has been bothering a sturdy, swart Philadelphian named Samuel Stuart Fleisher. Since he and his brother Edwin retired from their prosperous family cotton yarn mills, they have collected art and musical manuscripts, busied themselves with philanthropies, gently propagated Brother Samuel's dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could enter. Last week...
Nominee Knox stopped, stared. Heads turned, feet shuffled as the owner of the voice, Mrs. Mabel West, 39-year-old Philadelphian in Los Angeles for a visit, scrambled over laps to the aisle. There she proceeded to raise a small vial of iodine to her lips, drink, fall writhing to the floor. Later at the hospital, where she was found to be only slightly damaged, iodine-stained Accuser West speculated: "Maybe I just got hysterical...
...French father, a U. S.-born mother. Georges Martin was born in Paris, orphaned by the War, raised and educated in France by a Philadelphian he has never seen. When his profession as an electrical engineer barely brought him bread, he commercialized his digital talent. "I make bread and butter and jam," he now can say, "soon I think there will be caviar...