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...start in journalism is 82-year-old Mrs. Emmons Blaine, a strong-willed Chicago philanthropist who bought full-page ads in her Cousin Bertie McCormick's Tribune to plump for Roosevelt in '36, '40 and '44, when the Trib was denouncing him. Daughter of Reaper King Cyrus McCormick and heiress to his millions, "Aunt Anita" Elaine is the daughter-in-law of James G. ("Rum, Romanism and Rebellion") Elaine. She lives in a cavernous house on East Erie Street, is rarely seen in Chicago society, but gives occasional decorous parties, such as her dinner two weeks...
They all believe that competition is good for the soul. Competition selects that neurotic hybrid known as "a Crimeed" from the saner strains of College men, and the grim reaper of competitive toil determines his future career as a college journalist...
...Forge Shop. Harvester has come a long way since 1831, when Cyrus Hall McCormick invented his reaper in the forge shop of his Virginia farm and laid the groundwork for Harvester's greatness. Cyrus McCormick plugged his reapers with written testimonials, sold them on the installment plan ($30 down, $90 on terms). In 1847 he built a three-story brick factory in Chicago. By the time he died in 1884, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. was one of the largest in the field. Even after it became the International Harvester Co. 18 years later, through a merger with...
...declared the U.S. Patent Commissioner, Henry L. Ellsworth, in 1844. Men were still goggle-eyed over the recent invention of Morse's telegraph, Howe's sewing machine, Goodyear's vulcanized rubber, McCormick's reaper. Many agreed with Ellsworth that science must be near the end of its rope...
...priest, reported the Reaper, is Lei Tim-oi, 30, a onetime deaconess...