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THERE is a broad highway in the life of every man, a romance-strewn avenue of happiness. But seldom does anyone in this age of mechanics and materialism dare to remain long on his particular highway. It is much safer and far more profitable to stand on the curb and sell motor cars or lead pencils. So only in the evenings by the hearth fire when the world of skyscrapers and tabloid newspapers and directors' meetings is obscured by thick curtains and a desire for rest and refreshment does courage come--vicarious courage, of course--and the world worn modern...
Arthur Clement, of Arthur's Lunch and Smoke Shop in the basement of the Lampoon building, said last night that he would ask the holders of the mortgage to continue his lease, but would at the same time look about for a safer location with no river underneath. At that time he did not know that the building was to be sold over his head. A huge sign reading "For Sale" appeared on the Bow Street side of the turret late in the afternoon, and soon attracted a crowd...
...least three other expeditions plan to see the "blindspot" from heavier-than-air machines. Explorers Donald B. MacMillan and Roald Amundsen have both warned against the use of planes, the Yankee agreeing with the Norseman, in view of similar experiences, that dirigibles are safer. Amundsen is going this year in the Italian-built dirigible Norge, which spent the fortnight undergoing tests at Rome. As he left the U. S. last week, Amundsen gave the airplanes one chance of success in 1,500; felt his one chance was 100% good on a 50-hour dirigible flight...
...Former Premier Nitti, who fled from Italy without a passport two years ago, and is supposed to be financing the anti-Fascist journal, Corriere d'ltalia, now published in France. 2) Professor Salyemini, Florentine historian and philosopher, now delivering anti-Fascist lectures in London, "because I feel safer with the waves of the Channel between me and Fascismo." 3) Former Editor Nenni of the suppressed Italian Socialist newspaper, Avanti, once edited by Premier Mussolini in his Socialist days...
...unceasing from the cradle to the grave, will be to train Thinkers who Do; Doers who Think. The two kinds of activity cannot be separated without disaster. The Thinker who knows nothing of Doing is no guide for anyone; the Doer who has not learned to Think is no safer. The fact is that only through Doing can one learn rightly to Think. Through definite activities, useful in their own right and evidently respectable because they are useful, as well as through the written records of doing and thinking in the past, and talking and listening to talk, and reflection...