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Last week was Dr. Tesla's 75th birthday. Interviewers wished they might see him as he used to be seen in his Colorado laboratory a generation ago, strolling or sitting like a calm Mephistopheles amid blazing, thundering cascades of sparks 30 ft. long, Tesla currents alternating at such prodigious frequency that they would not harm a kitten. But instead they found him, not without some difficulty, in seclusion on the 20th floor of Manhattan's Hotel Governor Clinton. Pale but healthy, thin to ghostlincss but strong and alert as ever, he received his callers in quiet. His , hair is slate...
Since then he has been pondering his theories. His annual interview has been a rehash of the same old subject?Broadcasted Power. But last week he made a "rare occasion" of his 75th birthday and talked about something...
Professor Sigmund Freud's 75th birthday last week was full of incident. The Vienna Medical Society, which derided his first exposition of psychoanalysis 45 years ago so brutally that the sensitive student vowed never again to enter its rooms, made him an honorary member. Professor Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Nobel Prize), long Freud's opponent, acclaimed him thus: "Recognition by enemies is worth more than any amount of applause from supporters." In Manhattan and other centres scholars assembled for Freud homage dinners. And one of his most successful acolytes, Dr. Fritz Wittels of Vienna and Manhattan, published Freud...
...skulking in Honan with only 50,000 troops. Thus the 300,000 farmer soldiers of Yen and Feng constitute a stiff "disbandment problem." Last week this problem was being tackled in Shansi by able Dr. H. H. Kung, Disbandment Commissioner Extraordinary, unique in prestige as he is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...
...Nanking loud Mrs. Chang Hsueh-liang was hospitably entertained by two of the famed "Soong Sisters," arbiters of Chinese society: Mrs. Chiang Kaishek, softspoken, Wellesley-educated wife of the president, and Mrs. H. H. Kung whose husband is the excessively aristocratic 75th descendant of Confucius...