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Charles Michael Schwab (chairman of the board of Bethlehem Steel Corp.) arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania, having completed his 77th crossing of the Atlantic. After the usual "I am always an optimist in regard to American business," he said that he wears button shoes because he can get somebody to button them for him; that he always patronizes the same tailor because that tailor wears exactly his size clothing. Mr. Schwab will return to England in April to receive the Bessemer medal* from the British Industrial and Steel Institute. Will H. Hays, famed deus ex machina...
...could never prostitute his art by going to see RinTinTin. His friends began to telephone him palindromes; he needed a telephoned eyeopener to bring him out of a thesaurus hangover from the night before. But Mr. Diuguid triumphed even in death, lingering until the eleventh month of his 77th year. It is a proof of our perverted sense of values that a life so dedicated should win only a posthumous notoriety on the front page of the New York Times...
...sadness, like the last reverberations of an iron bell, stole into German hearts last week as the Countess Maria Rantzau. only daughter of the great Prince Bismarck, died at Kiel, in her 77th year...
...Engineer officer he served in the Philippines, at Mobile on the Rivers and Harbors Commission, at New Orleans during the severe floods of 1912 and 1913, and on the Panama Canal. He went overseas with the A. E. F. and became Chief of Staff of the 77th Division. In 1921 he was made Director of Public Buildings and Grounds of the District of Columbia, a post which carried with it the duties of Chief Military Aide to the President. But he made so much of his job in the city that it became necessary to relieve him of his duties...
...Blind Spot." Explorer MacMillan's plea for this assistance was indeed persuasive. In return for two airplanes, he would try to give the U. S. a new continent. North of Alaska and Siberia, from about 120° West Longitude to about 120° East Longitude, and from the 77th parallel to the North Pole, lies a vast region never explored by man, a "blind spot" on the most modern of maps. In 1906, three years before he reached the Pole, Admiral Peary stood on a cape of Ellesmere Land, looked northwest, swore he could discern, about 120 miles...