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...commands a gigantic map to appear on the floor, so that he can stride about, with one foot in Tibet and another in Hong Kong, pointing out the route. Again, when time presses, he produces a most convincing magic carpet to whisk his party home to Hollywood on the tick of the eightieth minute. Yet these tricks of photography and sound-recording seem not at all out of place with such a spellbinder at hand. Mr. Fairbanks does very well indeed with his eighty minutes and ours...
...long, rakish craft skimmed the wavelets of Indian Creek, Fla. one day last week, faster than a boat had ever traveled before, but a watch-tick too slow, officially, to break the world's record. The boat was Miss America IX; her pilot, Garfield ("Gar") Wood; her time, 96.20 nautical m. p. h. Because he had failed to exceed Kaye Don's time by a full 5 m. p. h. Gar Wood could not claim a record...
...Smith then worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He gained a professorship at George Washington (then Columbian) University. In 1893 he demonstrated that the "Texas fever" which was destroying cattle herds in the Southwest was caused by a microbe which the cattle tick took from sick beasts, nourished and transmitted to well beasts. Thus he proved and established the great principle of insect-borne transmission of infection which led to the understanding of and intelligent aggression against yellow fever, malaria, typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, and dozens of comparable diseases...
When young Huey Pierce Long wrote this campaign speech he was not a candidate for tick inspector of Winn Parish, Louisiana; he was only campaign manager for the candidate for tick inspector. But already he had learned that sweeping promises sweep up votes. Nineteen years later Huey Pierce Long ran for Governor of Louisiana, made sweeping promises, was elected. Elected with him was his good political friend, Paul N. Cyr, a dentist, who became lieutenant governor. Loud, red-headed Governor Long soon began to fulfill his campaign promises, to turn Louisiana topsy-turvy. Lieutenant Governor Cyr broke with him, became...
What makes Arthur Brisbane "tick...