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...trousers, an old sweater and a grey hat pulled far down on his grooved and sunburned face, he potters about the North Hollywood bungalow where he lives with his wife, son, and four-year-old daughter Carolyn, who sprawls about in a specially monstrous sandbox. The role of football wizard is, on the whole, superior to any other in professional sport. Coaches get higher salaries than any other professionals except a few baseball players. Their earning capacity is not determined by their age. They work only in the autumn and mostly in the afternoon. If they are successful, they...
...authentic background. Scott had a shrewd publisher in famed Constable, but they quarreled and Scott set up his old schoolmate James Ballantyne and his brother in a rival house. Soon Scott began publishing anonymously the successful "Waverley Novels." Even the Prince Regent could not induce "The Wizard of the North" to drop his anonymity-until Ballantyne & Co. failed. Scott went back to Constable. In 1825 Constable too crashed, leaving Scott more than $600,000 in the red. Friends, admirers, bankers offered to help. But Sir Walter Scott, bankrupt, widowed and ill, pitched in and for six years worked...
...haired Maurice McLoughlin was obviously a "comet." Sad, sly little Henri Cochet, with rings under his eyes, is a "wizard." Tilden, tall, thin, dramatic, made an almost funnypaper contrast with William Johnston, short, thin, efficient: they were "Big Bill" and "Little Bill." Last week the galleries at Wimbledon, after watching some tennis as great as Wimbledon ever saw, felt around for a nickname for its exponent, a lanky, lazy-looking California boy who had come over to play in his first "world championship...
During the last half-century, while the band-wagon of scientific progress has been rambling along, accumulating its balloon-tires, free-wheeling, and Wizard Controls, one little-known industry has been loitering by the wayside, gathering its hibiscus in shameful dalliance. These delinquents are the men who make Keys-to-the-City. Other locksmiths have been hard at work, stiffening bank-vaults against the professional marauder, fashioning Yale locks against the casual inebriate, while municipal keys have continued in the mold of the mediaeval rathaus...
Half a century ago, an unknown inventor made a strange machine called the phonograph, and an amazed world of horse-cars and gas-lights heard itself speak. At once, this world acclaimed him the Great Wizard, and through ensuing years it watched with Elizabethan enthusiasm for his magical machines as one after another they emerged from Menlo Park. Either outright or in part, he gave to the seventies the telephone microphone, the phonograph, and the incandescent electric light; to the eighties, the trolley car and the dynamo; and to the 'nineties, the cinema. With the turn of the century...