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...next night, an eastbound five-car passenger train plunged off the Pennsylvania main-line track along the Ohio River, near Baden, Pa. The locomotive toppled over on its side. Coal from the tender avalanched into the cab, buried the engineer. Coaches full of shocked and tumbled people rolled into the river...
...Have your baby rocked by a Harvard man," seems to be the slogan of a new service inaugurated by the Harvard Student Employment Office. Now Cambridge mothers can leave little Junior to the tender care of Cantab nursemaids. Workers in the baby-tending service, past-masters at the art of diaper-changing, have already watched over a hundred little cherubs. --Yale Daily News...
...that time has never once vindicated the Court in any major conflict with the representative branches on any question of social or economic policy. "Its judgment in the Dred Scott case was overruled by war. Its judgment that the currency that preserved the Union could not be made legal tender was overruled by Grant's selection of an additional Justice. Its judgment invalidating the income tax was overruled by the 16th Amendment. Its judgments repressing labor and social legislation are now abandoned. Many of the judgments against New Deal legislation are rectified by confession of error...
When the jazzed arteries had begun to calcify, and the bravely broken hearts began to miss a beat, Fitzgerald slowed down too. Between The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934), Fitzgerald published no novels. For the last three years he lived in Hollywood, tranquilly, soberly, almost clinically (friends claim he had not had a drink for years), but also somewhat like the last passenger pigeon in the Cincinnati...
...could see with his own eyes-the campus, the undergraduate clubhouse, the resorts, the hotels, the boudoirs, the country clubs, the North Shore of Long Island. Then, as he and the lost generation ran down together, he tried and almost succeeded in recapturing its final psychopathic spasms in Europe (Tender Is the Night...