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...Tone meets Lenore Ulric, a hijacker's property, and they struggle through a jerky love affair. Occasional advice is given by a worldly doctor, Leo Donelly, who even goes so far as to prescribe Miss Ulric for Mr. Tone as a remedy for his anemia and general rundown condition. Only new angle which Pagan Lady contributes to this genre of the drama is that although the preacher and the girl have to give each other up in the end, each has derived peace and satisfaction from the relationship...
...that crusade was posthumously rewarded with the Pulitzer prize. Yet the News did not pay. Its owner, James M. Cox, Ohio's ofttime (1913-15, 1917-19, 1919-21) Governor and the Democratic Presidential nominee of 1920, had bought it as a rundown property from Henry Holiday Timken (roller bearings). Still financially run down was it last week when Publisher Cox, who makes money with his Miami News, Springfield News, Dayton News and Springfield Sun, sold it to Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc., the Ohio chain which publishes the Canton Repository (evening). Brush-Moore did to the News what chain...
...opposing school of thought holds that pellagra is due to an infectious agent which is allowed to grow in the body, due to its rundown condition. Both sides arrive at the same conclusion: proper diet is a preventive and cure...
...Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbus, Ga., the Rev. Marvin H. Heflin, brother of James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin Senior. It was junior Heflin's third conspicuous episode of the kind in six months (TIME, 2 refs. July 1). Released on bond, he said he was "worried over his rundown physique...
...will probably cling to their picturesque illusions all the more because they have small foundation. Where could one find a horrible example of religious bigotry to cartoon if New England refuses the role? what becomes of the ancestry societies if one's ancestor was a bond servant on a rundown tobacco farm? The public will see to it that these iconoclastic assertions are still-born; it would never do to see the United States join hands with Australia as a place whose social genesis is best not talked about...