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Chicagoans throbbed with confidence and gratitude towards Mr. Insull when last autumn he acquired an inland tract on the city's grimy river bank and announced that here he would erect a $7,500,000 midwestern music Mecca (TIME, Nov. 29). And last week Chicagoans throbbed again, including even the strictly business-like Journal of Commerce & La Salle Street Journal, when Mr. Insull explained to the 2,500 long-suffering guarantors of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., of which he is president, how this music Mecca could avoid losing money...
...with a certain amount of leisure, spicing the rite with conversation with a kindred spirit. Even a few relevant words from the waiter are not unwelcome. Feeding and dining are both operations that have to do with food. But feeding is just high pressure stoking of the alimentary tract with fuel. "Feeders" resent the time required to do the job, and are hoping that some bright chap will soon boil all food down to a capsule that can be taken on the run, with no time...
...Media, Pa., Bernard C. Black, 84, called "Old Man of the Chimney" because for many years he refused to budge from a burned-down, ramshackle ruin consisting chiefly of a chimney on a $100,000 tract of land owned by him, died, following an apoplectic stroke...
...very considerately shouted in his ear during a brief audience, knowing him to be deaf. The Privy Council cited the dictionary of Dr. Johnson as defining what George III meant by "coast" as follows: "The edge or margin of land next to the sea [and also], a considerable tract of land bounded by and looking towards...
...considerable tract of land" is worth in this instance $250,000,000. The Privy Council awarded it to Newfoundland a fortnight ago, and quashed the claim which Canada has pressed for 25 years that Newfoundland should have only the "edge or margin" and Canada the hinterland or "inland" coast, rich in vast mineral deposits unsuspected by George...