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...Edgar Allan Poe was, wrote D.H. Lawrence, "an adventurer into the vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages of the human soul." He told of disintegrating bodies (The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar), accusatory objects (The Purloined Letter) and doomed homes (The Fall of the House of Usher) -- all now standard props of horror. Once the genre was taken seriously, American writers as naturalistic as Jack London and as refined as Edith Wharton used those special effects and sojourned in those underground passages, and they have been accompanied by hundreds of others, perhaps none more influential than Henry...
When the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series in 1919, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis barred the guilty players for life. This courageous decision helped usher in a new era of popularity and prosperity for baseball, as public confidence in the game was restored. The same courage is needed now to fight the players' unions, which are blocking random drug testing...
...courts were the league's last hope. In 1984 U.S.F.L. Commissioner Harry Usher and his owners had filed an antitrust suit. Though major-league baseball has been exempt from antitrust laws ever since a 1922 Supreme Court decision, other pro sports are not. Alleging that the N.F.L. had "willfully acquired and maintained a monopoly," the U.S.F.L. charged the older league with trying to drive it out of business, principally by leaning on the networks to withhold television contracts...
...including human insulin (1982), human growth hormone (1985) and alpha interferon (1986). The FDA approval of Recombivax HB is expected to give a big boost to the public image of an industry that has been more promising than profitable. Said Chiron President Edward Penhoet: "We think this vaccine will usher in a whole new generation of vaccines...
...With Usher as coach, the Crimson won the last three Ivy League Championships and also qualified for three consecutive NCAA berths...