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...55th birthday Albert Einstein filled out a Federal income tax blank as a nonresident alien, mailed it with his check from Princeton to the Collector of Internal Revenue for the First New Jersey District...
...final hours of the 55th International Six-Day Bicycle Race in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week it was necessary to watch only two of the ten teams whirling around the pine-board saucer. They were the red-jerseyed team of Peden & Letourner, and the red-white-&blue clad Hill & Debaets...
Ambitious little Deems Taylor, composer of The King's Henchman and Peter Ibbetson, received last week an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from ambitious little Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. at its 55th anniversary celebration. Graduate of New York University (1906), and an able writer of light verse, Composer Taylor told the students: "All of an individual's life depends upon the answer to one question. ... Do you want to make a dollar? There are two answers...
...Chrysler Building are 77 stories, a much-needed smart, uptown lunching place called Cloud Club, murals by Edward Trumbull (depicting "Energy and man's application of it to the solution of his problems"). In the Bank of Manhattan Building are 71 stories, an officer's club on the 55th floor, murals by Ezra Winter (depicting oldtime Wall Street scenes...
...Madrid last week the League of Nations Council adjourned for the 55th time after sidestepping its two most explosive problems and passing others over for future study. By far the most picturesque meeting in its history, it was one of the least fruitful. General Primo de Rivera's government had contrived to make it, with the Seville and Barcelona Expositions (TIME, May 20), Spain's biggest show. Hampered by publicity, the Council members resorted more than ever to secret sessions and corridor conferences to get their real work done...