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Left by the late John R. Gregg, inventor of Gregg Shorthand: more than...
Died. John Robert Gregg, 80, inventor of Gregg shorthand; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He developed his own shorthand as a note-taking schoolboy in Ireland, published his first manual at 20, came to the U.S. to teach five years later, lived to see his system taught in an estimated 95% of U.S. commercial and public schools...
...Written from records and shorthand notes, Speaking Frankly is a book in which...
...Please. Rugby's 620 boys nowadays come mainly from upper-class professional and mercantile families (the peerage prefers Eton and Harrow.). In contrast to the formal Eton attire and classic Eton curriculum, Rugbeians may dress in tweeds, flannels or what they please, take their pick of vocational (woodworking, shorthand) as well as traditional studies...
...Trees. The Atlantic gets 40,000 manuscripts a year and the nine-man staff reads them all. (The G.B.S. piece came in "over the transom"-unsolicited.) Associate Editor Charles W. Morton helps Weeks develop new article ideas. They understand each other so well that conferences are as elliptical as shorthand. (Morton to Weeks: "Atomic bomb-Einstein." Weeks to Morton: "I'll call Swing...