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...present it to President Roosevelt. Henry Jacques Gaisman, board chairman of Gillette Safety Razor, was willing to go to $7,500 to present it "to the American people." Before he could finish his speech bids went to $24,000 and the manuscript was sold to the ubiquitous Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach who calmed patriots by announcing that for a "small profit" he was acting on behalf of the trustees of the Walters Gallery. Thus the manuscript went right back where it had been for years...
...apparently never occurred to Isaac, sexagenarian son of Abraham, that Rebekah, big with twins after 20 years' barrenness, might have half betrayed him when she conceived shaggy, ruddy Esau and sleek, swarthy Jacob. Wiser in rustic folkways, Ewald Peddie, Yankton. S. Dak. farmer, taxed his wife with infidelity when she bore him twin sons who were in his eyes as different as Esau and Jacob. She admitted bedding with a neighbor. Everyone to whom Farmer Peddie talked declared that the idea of twins having different fathers was scientifically preposterous. For six years his suspicion of divided paternity rankled. Finally...
...Manhattan last week Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach said that $511,250 for the Codex Sinaiticus was the largest sum ever paid for a book or manuscript, that the U. S. S. R. had offered it to him last year...
...flag was out at Sloan's Washington furniture auction house last week to mark another auction. It was not very smart furniture-ricketty rosewood tables, bulbous bureaus, gilt knicknacks popular in the late go's. But Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter, Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, went down to the sale as did 300 other Washington socialites, for under the auctioneer's hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman...
...that light always travels at the same speed through a vacuum. Last week from a sunny California valley came shocking news that "that most fundamental constant" is apparently a variable. Nineteenth Century theorists supposed that light was propagated through space by an all-pervading ether. The late great Albert Abraham Michelson, first U. S. Nobel Prizewinner in Science, reasoned that if this ether existed, then the motion of the earth through it should affect the velocity of light. In 1887 he and Edward W. Morley rigged up an interferometer, raced two beams of light against each other, one parallel...