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Lives of football heroes, child actors, prodigious poets and boy Senators have demonstrated time & again the perils and penalties of early fame. Spotlighted in Washington last week was the rarer but less tragic phenomenon of a man to fame came late. Seventeen years ago Dr. Francis Everett retired to California to spend last years in the sun. Like that of every physician, his life in South Dakota's Black Hills had been a hard one which had him no fame and very little Legend has it that Dr. Townsend's new life began when he looked...
...popular soak-the-rich measure, the capital gains tax places an unreasonably heavy levy on any profits made through the sale of securities on the open market. Briefly, if an investor bought General Electric Common at twenty and attempts to sell at thirty-seven, his seventeen dollar profit is so heavily taxed that he is literally compelled to hold on to the stock. The result is fatal to market stability. At a period of bullish enthusiasm when the number of buyers is unduly stimulated, the number of those who naturally be sellers is artificially restricted...
Article I of the new constitution, dealing with membership, was also adopted. This is similar to the old membership clause providing for a council of seventeen men, including a representative from each House unit and two men from outside the Houses. Nomination for election is to be as before, and the nine elected members are to choose the eight additional members. There will be 11 Seniors and six Juniors as at present...
...obviously incumbent upon me; but a comprehensive delimitation of my obligations might be grouped under four categories. . . ." He does not agree that "one horrible long word is shorter. than two or three good short ones. . . ." When he turns up a particularly odious pomposity he calls it ''this seventeen-letter paper-sore...
...seventeen men who can be be selected as first string this year, Harvard loses nine as against five graduated from last year's squad. The four Senior forwards, Captain Freddy Moseley of the first line, and Dewey, Hovenanian and Hallowell, alone possess as much attacking power as most any of the teams faced this year. The three defense men, Jim Roberts, Dick Claflin, and Thorny Brown, could have substituted for any in the league. And the two goalies, Ash Emerson and Bob Waldinger, are worthy of any varsity. Leo Ecker, whose severe leg fracture is apparently healing well, will join...