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Then, certainly, is Sever Hall, the most modern building of its time when completed, out of place between Widener and Appleton. Even Memorial Hall, an architectural throwback, is now accepted as part of the University scene, which would seem bare without it. New ideas suffer the risk of being hit until either the attacker or the idea is worn...
Gwinn ended on this plea for minority action. While his historical throwback may amuse some, his plan is no joke. More than twenty states have petitioned Congress for just such a Convention, and only thirty-two such petitions are necessary...
Taciturn Manager Richards, a throwback to the rough-tough John McGraw school of managing, may have no pennant winner this season, but he has coaxed and goaded a team which finished sixth last year into a first-division frame of mind. By this week the free-wheeling White Sox, leading the league in stolen bases (25 over runner-up New York with 15), had clawed and scrambled their way into second place in the standings (one game behind the world champion Yankees), and had stretched their winning streak to eleven...
Henry Koerner's meticulous realism strikes a lot of moderns as just a throwback to 19th Century genre painting. But since art moves in cycles, it may really represent an advance. Koerner obviously thinks so; the only question he asks himself is how to consolidate his advance...
...boss of the company is August Jr., who started as a worker in a malt house in 1921 and reached the top four years ago when his older brother, Adolphus, the company president, died of cancer. A barrel-chested World War II colonel, "Gussie" Busch, now 51, is a throwback to Grandfather Adolphus. He has a shrewd eye for horses, a nose that can sniff the quality of hops, and he likes nothing better than the periodic Schlachtfeste at which the family, clad in Bavarian costumes, consumes quantities of sausages, pork cuts and ribs washed down with Budweiser...