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...deftness of his hands. Rich and unorthodox in his methods, he invented the widely-used mercury vapor lamp, discovered the basic principle of the vacuum-tube amplifier, made many an other prime contribution to electricity and radio. He also pioneered in the development of hydro-airplanes, speedboats, aerial torpedoes, heliocopters. He died in 1921. Peter Cooper Hewitt's only child was a daughter, Ann Cooper Hewitt, born in 1914 when he was 53. She was illegitimate until her father married her mother in 1918 after Mrs. Hewitt I obtained a divorce. By the terms of his will, Mrs. Hewitt...
...first projects undertaken by the Geographical Institute's aerial photography group was the mapping of the Newburyport, Mass. area for the peabody Museum's survey of the inhabitants of that region. An army of workers was employed to interiew each Newburyport resident, noting his personal history and gathering anthropological data on his skull's dimensions...
...chieftains chanted the psalms of David while the Emperor conferred with his onetime Minister to Paris, modest General Tecle Hawariate, who, it was announced will be commander of Ethiopian troops in the North. The announcement promptly bred more rumors that Ras Seyoum, northern commander, had been killed in the aerial bombardment of Mai Mescic fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 2). Italian spies were unable to check it, while in Addis Ababa officials insisted that Ras Seyoum had sent definite word of his movements within the past few days...
WHEN the ace campus chemist test tubes the wrong acids hand him a camera with which to catch anew aerial view of the campus. Or better yet, send COLLEGIATE DIGEST photos of the accident scene and principles. The "Eyes Over the Campus" editor will pay you the professional news photographers rates $3 for all photos he accepts for publication...
Speaking on his "Aerial Adventures in the Yukon," Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, young explorer, last night entertained the members of the Harvard Travelers' Club in the Geographical Institute auditorium...