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...Dredd Scott vs. Sandford," Professor Wright, Harvard...
...been turned over to William F. Allen, secretary of the American Railway Association, and to him has gone most of the credit for Standard Time in the U. S. Dr. Dowd saw most of the credit for dividing the whole world into 24 time zones go to Sir Sandford Fleming, a Canadian railway engineer and university chancellor. As a final irony. Dr. Dowd was killed in a grade-crossing accident...
...original idea sinks in there is nothing very comical-unless you think a joke improves with repetition -about the war with the Greeks which presently sets in. Naturally Antiope falls in love with a Greek hoplite (David Manners). When Hercules-portrayed as a puffing, timid lout by Stanley Sandford- stumbles into camp he is roguishly made a prisoner by Hippolyta's ringlet-bearded little spouse, who subsequently realizes that he can advance his coy campaign for the emancipation of men by giving Hercules what he came for, the girdle of Diana. When Hercules skulks off with this talisman...
...member of Life's present staff was at the birth. He is Associate Editor Edward Sandford Martin, who celebrated his 77th birthday two days before the magazine's Golden Jubilee. E. S. Martin was Life's first editor, and a part owner but was stricken with malaria and had to quit after the first six months. Three or four years later he resumed work as editorial writer, wrote regularly for the next 40 years until Editor Norman Hume Anthony, now of Ballyhoo, took the editorship of Life in 1929 for a brief tenure. Lloyd George had called...
Kansas Republicans picked Banker Ben Sandford Paulen, onetime Governor, to make the Senate race. Renominated by the Democrats was Senator George McGill who handily defeated a lone Wet opponent. The only Wet to make any snowing in dust-dry Kansas was Edward White Patterson, a Democratic lawyer pledged to Repeal who squeaked through to a House nomination in the heavily Republican 3rd Congressional district. Because Reapportionment cost Kansas one House seat, Republican Representatives Strong and Lambertson had to fight it out for the ist District's nomination. Mr. Strong, ardent Hooverite, was defeated...