Ghostly Halcyon Camp Mystery at Kneeland House
Besvi Young Rex Hale visits Casper Kneeland’s Halcyon Camp on Long Island and meets a strange circle including Mrs. Nash Ruth Forbes and Dr. Craig. Tension builds from odd sketches, cadaver talk, a poisoned animal, and Hale’s unsettling premonition as he plans a return to New York.
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Rex Hale
Casper Knee- Sand
New York
Hale
Halcyon
Long Island
Fred Ainsworth
Wilbur Nash
Hosanna
Kneeland
Ruth Forbes
Danterus
Craig
Bert Kneeland
Casper
Joan Kneeland
Ainsworth
Bert
Rex Hale Pursues Leads in Ainsworth Case in New York
Rex Hale shifts through clues after leaving Kneeland to trace the physician Craig and Ainsworth. He borrows a fingerprint expert's address, meets his old friend George Stuyvesant for lunch, and checks Ainsworth’s vacant East Forty-second Street office, hoping to uncover the doctor’s ties and loyalties.
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Rex
Kneeland
Kneeland Company
East River
Ainsworth
Ithaca
New York
South America
George Stuyvesant
Mr. Stuyvesant
Frederick Ainsworth
East Forty-second Street
Hale
Craig
Herbert Kneeland
Chicago
O. K
Stuyvesant
Maxim’s
Mr. Ainsworth
I Gordon
Television pioneer Allen B Du Mont and his early lab
New York readers learn of Allen B Du Mont, television’s early enthusiast, who quit a safe job in 1931 to explore the cathode ray tube in a cellar. By 1937 he built a Montclair lab with 42 workers and by 1938 Paramount Pictures backed his venture, signaling television’s rapid industry growth.
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New York
Chicago
Fang Abarteit
Britain
John Logie Baird
Allen B. du Mont
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Westinghouse Company
Bloomfield
N. J
de Forest Radio Company
Baird
Mr. du Mont
Montclair
Paramount Pictures
Anonymous professor decries teaching as sinecure and underappreciated pay
A college professor defends the profession as well paid and easy, citing a $5,000 annual salary for 12 teaching hours weekly, minimal prep, and tenure protections as evidence of a perceived paradox in higher education. He insists freedom in teaching and speech justifies the status, and criticizes unions for complicating firing.
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American Association of University Professors
Aete Fome Academic
Wars Sparked by Minor Incidents Across History
The article notes that conflicts arise from small triggers in various nations. It cites the Indian mutiny over cartridge grease and cites European cases where hot headedness and misread gestures sparked wars between Sweden and Poland and tensions with Turkey and Venice.
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India
Europe
London
Tit-Bits Magazine
Sweden
Poland
Turkey
Venice
Ex-Blanket Stiff To Earned a Doctorate and Mediation
TOHN R. STEELMAN, former government conciliation service head, began as a blanket stiff riding trains with hoboes to reach Arkansas and western wheat fields. He later earned an A B from Henderson College, an M A from Vanderbilt, and a Ph D from UNC, smoothing 4 231 labor disputes in 1938 involving 1 618 409 workers.
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Tohn R. Steelman
Arkansas
Henderson College
Vanderbilt
University of North Carolina
Ataturk's Record Speech Rumor Says Length Was Unmatched
A Colier's account claims Mustafa Kemal Pasha, later Kemal Ataturk, delivered a seven hour daily six day address to Angola's national assembly in 1927. The marathon speech allegedly totaled 350000 words and was published in two volumes.
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Kemal Ataturk
Mustafa Kemal Pasha
National Assembly
Angola
Collier’s
Defending Truth Faces Heat Not Arguments
A quotation by William Penn notes that anger from defenders can harm truth more than opponents does, warning against heated defense overcoming reason.
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Truth
William Penn
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California
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China
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Mystic Foam CO
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Acme.trading CO
Montana Ave
Billings
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Powell
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Farge
Dept
Kodak Films
FOX Studios
Mont
Bell
Ogden
Utah
Pasha
Lydia Pinkham
Ela
MNO
Doan
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