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...words Thomas Carlyle said most of what is actually known about the man who wrote Don Quixote: "A certain strong man fought stoutly at Lepanto, worked stoutly as an Algerine slave; with stout cheerfulness endured famine and nakedness and the world's ingratitude; and sitting in gaol, with one hand left him, wrote our joyfullest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named it Don Quixote." Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty...
Three weeks ago the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee began to hunt for crumbs of scandal in the U. S.'s Big Three shipbuilding companies-New York, Newport News and Bethlehem. But no crumb tickled the stout palate of the U. S. public until the Committee found the names of two of Wall Street's biggest bear speculators, of an ex-heavyweight champion, of the right-hand man of a famed promoter all nicely linked together with Edward J. Flynn who, next to Boss Farley, was henchman since times far back...
...bone. When a person, especially if elderly, falls the knob is apt to break off from the thigh bone. Healing has been a tremendously difficult and painful process. Last year Dr. David Robert Telson of Brooklyn suggested piercing the knob and shaft and lacing them together with stout piano wire. This procedure works to a degree. But the stoutest piano wire gives a little. Last week Dr. Frederick J. Gaenslen of Milwaukee said that he got dependable cures of broken hips by nailing the knob and shaft together with steel spikes about half the thickness of a lead pencil...
Piquant to firms like the English house which lists itself in London's telephone directory as "Rolls-Royce Ltd., Motor Chassis Manufacturer" and builds no bodies whatever, seemed the philosophy of U. S. automotive engineers as capsuled by President Stout: "The car must look right above all things. The machinery part is easy and does not even need to be worried about...
Along with Germans, Czechoslovaks were proud last week that they too have in standard production the rear-engine car of President Stout's production dreams. Made by the great automobile & locomotive firm of Tatra, it sells for about 30,000 koruny...