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...City, word of Dr. Connell's cancer experiments got about. He received little attention. For one thing, he had only cancerous mice to talk about at that time. Also in the scales against Dr. Connell was Ontario's tolerance of Dr. Mahlon William Locke, who in a swivel chair at Williamsburg, Ont. with one hand grabs the $1 bills, with the other manipulates the feet of long lines of patients, many of whom are later advised to buy Locke-designed shoes...
...many a student through social and financial troubles. Roscoe Pound's day begins at 6:30 a. m., ends at midnight. Often he spends most of it inside his walnut horseshoe desk which is lined with some 300 books. When he wants one he spins around in his swivel chair, gets it at first grasp, buries his nose in it to overcome extreme myopia. When callers come he pushes up his eyeshade, chuckles merrily. The Harvard Lampoon once ran a picture of a pansy whose petals resembled unmistakably the chubby cheeks, droopy mustache and twinkly eyes...
...Properties. Their mother, née Bilsbarrow, arrived there after paddling a canoe from St. Louis to New Orleans (1,260 mi.) in 42 days, al most won the national tower-diving championship in 1920. She teaches her children the family specialty by harnessing them in a belt with swivel joints and making them practice until they know the proper movements of each dive. Mary Hoerger, at 8, placed ninth in the senior Olympic trials, in which her entry was accepted only after Mrs. Hoerger had hired a lawyer to persuade the committee that she was not too young...
President Roosevelt rocked back in his swivel chair, lighted a cigaret, jestingly asked the assembled reporters if they had any news for him. When the consequent titter died down, a voice asked if he had reached any conclusions about NRA. He had and for the next hour he proceeded to give them to the Press, not as a straight quotable interview, but as an indirect monolog addressed to the nation at large. Though, by this technical device, the President was relieved of black-&-white accountability for all he said, the 200 newshawks were able to reconstruct from their notes...
From active service on the dangerous seas of the Spanish-American war to an obscure exhibit and improvised coat rack, might be the thumb-nail history of the swivel gun now located in the basement of the Freshman Union...