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Birthday. Albert Abraham Michelson, measurer of light, first U. S. Nobel Prizeman in science (physics, 1907), whose optical studies gave Albert Einstein a main clue to the Relativity Theory.* Age 77. He marked the week by resigning as head of the physics department at the University of Chicago because of ill health. Next spring at Pasadena, Calif., Professor Michelson, now convalescing from an operation, will peer through a very straight corrugated iron pipe, from which air will have been evacuated, to determine more accurately than heretofore the speed of light...
Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill (Freud-follower): "I am heartily opposed to the killing of this woman. . . . Society is based on repression, and the most important repression is the command 'Thou shalt not kill...
...Pennsylvania; Lyman Henry Butter-field of Rochester, New York; Lester Cramer of Worcester; Emile Mack Despres of New York City; John Charles de Wilde of Shiloh, New Jersey; Joseph Leo Doob of New York City; Jeronie David Frank of New York City; Hirsch Jacob Freed of Brooklyn, New York; Abraham Grossman of Beverly; Ray Hardin of Cincinnati Ohio; Albert Gailord Hart II of White Plains, New York; Beaumont Alexander Herman of Somerville; Leo Tolstol Hurwitz, of Brooklyn. New York; Richard Whitney of Hartford, Connecticut...
...Bacon, Groton School; M. A. Benson, Boston Latin School; J. M. Bigelow, Groton School; H. H. Bissell, Exeter; R. A. Bloomfield, Central High School; J. J. Borland, II, Choate School; B. C. Bowker, Boston Latin School; M. C. Bradley, Jr., Arlington High School; Leon Brooks, Boston Latin School; Abraham Brown, Boston Latin School; D. W. Brown, Jr., Saint Mark's School; Hamilton Brown, Andover; W. M. Burdett, Trinity School...
...night the singer met a novelist, pink-cheeked Carl Van Vechten. He now calls him "the Abraham Lincoln of Negro Art." He met and admired others: Muriel Draper partygoing in a window curtain; Colyumist Heywood Broun lying shirt-sleeved beside his bathtub of cocktails, to receive intelligentsia; Lady Oxford asking Gordon to Black Bottom after singing for royalty. He sang all over the U. S., heard deafening and perplexing applause. Now 36, he muses: "Ho! Ho! ... I wonder what I was born...