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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French waitress. Every evening one table is reserved exclusively for those who would like to converse in French, and under the supervision of Dr. Marcel Francon, the experiment has become very popular. A German table, also, has been organized by Reginald Phelps on the same basis, and is meeting twice a week at noon time, in the small dining room...
...Delano has twice been a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, from 1905 to 1911 and from 1912 to 1918. From 1906 to 1911, he was a director of the Alumni Association and in 1911-12 he was a Vice-President...
...benefit of 25,000 spectators, whenever Sharkey's right hand reached up to graze his lantern jaw. In the fourth round Sharkey, outweighed 261 Ib. to 2021. thought of an old trick, one which would never have fooled a clever or a more experienced fighter. He hit Carnera twice in the middle. When Carnera dropped his hands to protect his body, Sharkey led for Carnera's jaw, reached it with a right hand punch that caused Monster Carnera to give an astonished grunt and collapse...
...those ailments of age dragged him down, he repeatedly spurted away from them, repeatedly got back at his work. Last week he became mentally drowsy, sank rapidly. On Monday, his physician could not promise his six children and Mrs. Edison more than two days before a crisis. The Pope twice cabled from Rome to inquire the patient's condition, not because Mr. Edison was a Roman Catholic (his son-in-law John Eyre Sloane is one) but because all men had long honored him as a world citizen...
...wouldn't read in public for a million dollars." He loves to read detective stories, does not know whether he is a great poet or not but says he has never consciously injured anyone. Other books: The Man Against the Sky, Merlin, Roman Bartholow, The Man Who Died Twice, Tristram, Calender's House, The Glory of the Nightingales (TIME, Sept...