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Herbert George Wells has been seeing things for years, and telling about them at such length and with such irrepressible enthusiasm that now, at 70, he is well known as Civilization's Journalist No. 1. Back in the protozoic slime of the Victorian Era he first saw his vision of Civilization Triumphant, and in his fashion has been faithful to it ever since. Numerous, in^nious have been his variations on this theme. Last week his 78th book added one more minor version. Used to fat books from Author Wells, readers were surprised at the slimness of The Croquet...
...England to dig into the origins of the court in which he sits. No snuffer, Judge Stearne likes to smoke his pipe when out of the Orphans' Court, philosophize about his work. Says he: "We do have contact with the rattling skeletons and the filth and the slime, yet on occasion life's most delightful romances and amusing comedies are unfolded before our very eyes. . . ." Actual conduct of the hearings of Case No. 2552 was assigned to Master William M. Davison Jr., a Scotsman, and to Examiners Clinton A. Sowers and George Ross, whose fees in the case...
...Pittsburgh stirred itself, started back to life. Some power was being piped in from the West. By midnight almost half the street lights were on, some trolley cars were running, electricity was flowing to hospitals, dairies, bakeries. But all next day, as the receding flood left an inch of slime on streets and sidewalks, banks, factories, stores, theatres, schools remained closed. It would be days before power generators, factory machines, water pumps could be dried out and set working. The dead were estimated at 57, the homeless at 135,000, the damage...
Finally the barnacle-crusted hulk of the Islander came grudgingly to the surface, and the salvage boats nursed it toward Admiralty Island, 15 mi. from Juneau. Last week the wreck was beached. Frank Curtis and his men crawled inside, pried into every nook & cranny, sifted the cold slime and sludge foot by foot. Not an ounce of gold did they find...
...when the Stavisky scandal broke. M. Chautemps is now leader in the Chamber of the biggest Left bloc, the Radical Socialists whose Party President is Edouard Herriot, perpetual Mayor of Lyons, onetime Premier and today, like M. Tardieu, a Minister of State. One morning last week despondency at the slime being flung at the Chautemps family caused Niece Jacqueline Chautemps to commit suicide. She may or may not have known that that morning M. Tardieu would go before the Stavisky Committee and launch a vitriolic attack upon Uncle Camille Chautemps...