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...hazard to New Orleans a century ago. He was so disliked by the natives that he was nicknamed "Johnny Crapaud'' (French for toad). The pastime became known as "Crapaud's Game," then "Crap's Game," finally-after it spread up the Mississippi and trickled throughout the country-craps...
...Netherlands bore a baby girl last year, many Dutchmen were downcast. They wanted a boy. In Manhattan thoughtful Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid Daily News got to thinking about this and about all the family headaches, royal crises, useless conversation and bad guesses caused by similar uncertainties throughout history. He told his staff to see what could be done to end them...
Born in London in 1757, William Blake impressed his parents at the age of four by seeing God's head in the window. No mere precocity, this faculty of imaginative vision remained his extraordinary endowment throughout life. Before he was 20 he learned the craft of engraving and wrote his Poetical Sketches, the purest lyric poetry of the century. At 24 he married a girl who could neither read nor write. Blake might have had worldly advancement but it scared him. In 1795, when someone got him the offer of a post as Tutor in Drawing to the Royal...
...alarming that Harvard's President James Bryant Conant last month devoted much of his annual report to it, the Rockefeller General Education Board gave $520,000 to a commission* to study it and throughout the land teacher training is undergoing an overhauling. Last week Cornell University launched a significant new teacher training plan...
Both Ross and Allman in their 121 pound match showed some of the bet wrestling in the meet. Repeating last year's achievement, Allman was the winner by a fall. The little blind Penn wrestler is one of the really outstanding men in his weight throughout the country...