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...face of such a demand for its product and in view of the unique opportunities Harvard has developed since 1909, even though it is admitted that prosperity is still sulking on the wrong side of the corner, is defensible only on the grounds of absolute inability to scrape up the necessary funds...
...suppose that the old physician was set to brooding on the sorrows of the aged poor by the fact that his own savings were swept away by Depression and, instead of enjoying the well-earned ease and security which he had expected, he was forced at 60-odd to scrape a living as a real-estate salesman. In these circumstances Dr. Townsend conceived his Plan to pay every citizen over 60 a Government pension of $200 per month for life. Good & Grey. Dr. Townsend appeared on the national scene some two years ago as a gaunt, grey, gentle...
Lucian Fletcher was born in 1824 at Lynchburg, Va., where he passed a harum-scarum life which came to its first climax when he became involved in a disgraceful shooting scrape. To save his skin, his father, a well-to do planter, packed Son Lucian off over the Blue Ridge into what is now West Virginia. And to care for this handsome but troublesome son, Planter Fletcher sent along two slaves, Arch and Mary...
...know he is the second, but we went on to ask him what time he made the crossing. "Oh, all i did was scrape off the muffler," he replied, reminding us of Johnny Walker and his "still going strong...
...handsome, determined, the mother of three children. She pursued the artist relentlessly, carefully tucked him in at night, worried for fear he would freeze, scolded him about her wages, wept readily, was devoted, affectionate, jealous. The artist escaped her long enough to get into an innocent scrape with her rival, Anna, and to enjoy a brief affair with the lovely Pauline, with whom he lived during a stretch of exceptionally cold weather. In the end Salamina married a carpenter...