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...Chapelizod, outside Dublin, complications of jaundice, dropsy and heart disease brought Death last week to a bearded, brilliant gentleman with a testy tongue, Timothy Michael Healy, first Governor General of the Irish Free State, in his 76th year. Three years ago failing health made him resign the Governor-Generalship. Fortnight ago his condition became critical, relatives were summoned. Tim Healy (nobody ever called him anything else) died in the night...
Awarded. Jointly to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon on his 76th birthday (Mar. 24) and his brother Banker Richard Beatty Mellon within his 73rd birthday week (Mar. 19) : the medal of the American Institute of Chemists; for establishing and maintaining the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh and for helping create the National Institute of Health under the Treasury Department...
George Moore, celebrating his 76th birthday in London, last week, announced that he had burned the original version of his novel, Aphrodite in Aulis. Shrewd, however, he had saved enough of it to make a fragment for Vanity Fair (March issue). He said he was rewriting the novel entirely: "I missed the architecture the first time and every thing in every art must have architecture. . . . After Aphrodite in Aulis is finished I shall write no more...
...Jean Baptiste (76th Street and Lexington Avenue), where the Host is displayed night and day for perpetual adoration. A group of Roman Catholic laymen, some rich, some poor, called the Nocturnal Adoration Society, meets once a week to spend the night in prayer...
...American Chemical Society met. last week, at Swampscott, Mass., for their 76th convention. Members discussed...