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...Marston Taylor Bogert, 68, first professor of organic chemistry at Columbia University (since 1904), ardent pacifist, tireless lecturer, author of 300 chemical papers of which 64 concern the quinazolines and thiazoles (synthetic aromatics) ; the annual medal of the American Institute of Chemists...
...exceedingly slim pickings from the labor and gambling rackets, which were expected to be gangsters' gold-mines after Repeal. Consequently there is no motive left for murder and violence other than private vengeance, and even this form of amusement has grown unpopular among Chicago's mobdom owing to the tireless efforts of police authorities...
...Britain's Parliament, deigning to give ear to the television buzz, appointed a committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television passed a gruesome mile stone in Crystal...
...music of their names excuse for theft from Lyly, Burton, and Walt Whitman; "Bluebell and Burly, . . Old Drum, . . Rouster, . . Bugler, Fifer, Bounce, Nimble, Witchcraft, Warlock, and Wisdom. . . He told over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch, Chieftan, Crystal, Valkyrie, Beldame, Pickpocket, Tattler, Blackamoor, Dragoon, ... Tipster, Hector, Melodius, Lucifer, Strident, Chorister, Lark, Cherokee, Hurricane, Phoebe, Fanciful, Juno, Linda." Three of Music's puppies, the Cap'n happily named "Do, Re, and Mi." The author evinces an admirable and affectionate knowledge of hounds and fox-hunting...
...Prisoner of Shark Island, Dr. Mudd is Warner Baxter, rolling his eyes with suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall...