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The atom, tightest bundle of matter which man knows, would be a morning glory pod popping out its electron and proton seeds, if physicists had an electric current of sufficiently high voltage at their hands. General Electric jupiters and Westinghouse thors have produced 5,000,000 volts of static electricity...
Bertrand H. ("Bert") Snell of Potsdam, N. Y., is a banker and cheesemaker. Short, florid, solid, he combines the rigidity of a businessman with the facility of a politician. There is small room for humor in his job of ramming resolutions through the Rules Committee and he seldom smiles. Amherst...
The incident had this significance: a local chain can be so ef- fective that it can resist hysterical battering of the independent re- tailer and the methodical ramming of the national chain. National chain stores have often absorbed local chains; it is possible that national chains may break down into...
On a day of surprises, the biggest was found in the package that Brown sent to New Haven. It contained, among other things, a live Brown bear for a mascot, and some enormous linesmen who spent a jolly afternoon ramming their muzzles into Yale's honeycomb. A Brown touchdown...
FORTY YEARS A GAMBLER ON THE MISSISSIPPI-George H. Devol -Henry Holt ($2). An inland buccaneer tells many disconnected anecdotes of fleecing the not-so-innocents who traveled up and down the great valley before, during and after the Civil War. The chief characters are the three little pasteboards of...