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...squad, which at present seems to be poorer than last year's, and is especially weak in the doubles, may round into shape before the match with the powerful Yale team on the sixteenth, according to Dick Dorson. Brailey, Cameron, beside Tufts and Zinsser, seem to be definitely the best bet in the doubles at the moment...
...modern "inventor" is likely to be a big corporation. Big corporations have not only the best laboratories, but the most money and the most staying power in infringement suits. These suits can be so costly and long-drawn-out that the poorer contender can be bought or frozen out, however valid his claims...
...plot centers around a Welsh coal mining family which revels in the beauty of its green valley. But in time, the slag and soot cover all that was green-in both nature and the miners. As the slag piles increase, the Morgan family gets bigger and poorer, their daughter becomes eligible, their sons turn radical, and the bosses start cutting the wages. This is the backdrop for the hour and a half of dramatic entertainment that follows...
...curate in grimy industrial Leeds, young Cosmo Lang slept in a condemned tenement on a board bed only two feet wide, ministered to people even poorer than himself. But promotion came to the shrewd young man: as an Oxford don, vicar of Portsea and, in 1901, Bishop of London's East End diocese of Stepney. In 1908 the Archbishop of York died, and at 44 Lang was appointed Europe's youngest archbishop...
Louis Michel Eilshemius, scrag-bearded, self-styled Mahatma, Supreme Parnassian and Grand Transcendent Eagle of Art, spent half a century painting in obscurity, writing letters of self-praise to editors, growing poorer, bitterer, more desperate. In 1932, when he was 68, fame and recognition came to the old man. Two Manhattan galleries held exhibitions of his paintings, the Metropolitan Museum bought one. Last week, from the musty, gaslighted Victorian brownstone house his father left him (on which he was unable to pay the mounting taxes), Eilshemius was taken to Bellevue Hospital, placed in the psychopathic ward...