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Although Inn of That Journey is far more candidly documented than Huckleberry Finn, it lacks something else for which its candor does not compensate: the literary verve of Mark Twain...
...Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it."--So said Mark Twain before the Hurricane of 1938 had forced men to do a lot about it--Picking up the wreckage. Harvard, alas, while clearing the debris in short order, has failed to realize its duty of training students in meteorology, the science of weather. True, the University does list five half-courses in this subject for undergraduates, but each one is given by Professor--, assisted by Mr.--, omitted 1938-1939, and for an indefinite period thereafter...
...concert artist were closely bound up with the U. S. From 1900 on he made some 25 U. S. concert tours. Eventually he made the U. S. his permanent home, became a U. S. citizen, married a U. S. woman, Clara Clemens, concert-singing daughter of Author Mark Twain...
...FATHER MARK TWAIN-Clara Clemens Harper...
Died. Henri Grechen, 73, bearded old Manhattan barber who cut the hair of Mark Twain, Florenz Ziegfeld, the elder J. P. Morgan, Marshal Joffre, claimed credit for inventing the "bob"; after long illness; in Hawthorne...