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Victoria ruled, Alexandra dazzled, Mary keeps house and home. George V has said: "You know, among ourselves?in the family, I mean?we never speak of 'Buckingham Palace'; we always call it 'home...
Products. Among famed U. S. children who have been educated under the Montessori methods are the grandchildren of Alexander Graham Bell: Lilian Waters, Alexander Graham Bell, and Elsie Alexandra Carolyn, children of Editor Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor; Alexander Graham Bell, Barbara, and Nancy Bell, children of Botanist David Grandison Fairchild. In the Hollywood school, chubby Douglas Fairbanks Jr. learned to button shoes, fit blocks, scrape the second fiddle. The Dottoressa never married but her adopted son Mario is a finished product of the system. He is now 31 years old, married to Helen Christie of Cleveland, who teaches at the Opera...
Rain fell all night. While weeping parents tiptoed through three wards of the Royal Alexandra Infirmary, a temporary morgue, trying to identify their children, members of the Town Council met privately, voted $5,000 for a public funeral, started an investigation. At midnight a group of Paisley citizens gathered in the main square, softly sang "Auld Lang Syne...
...Thereminophone and differed from the better known RCA Theremin in that its tone is controlled by a fingerboard (rather than by waves of the hand), its volume by a pedal. Carl Zeise, regular Philadelphia 'cellist who operates it, is one of several able Theremin soloists-among them Alexandra Stepanoff, who appeared recently in Chicago, George Goldberg and Zenide Hanenfeldt, who teaches some 25 Theremin aspirants in Inventor Leon Theremin's Manhattan studio...
Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd last week flew east from Little America, discovered: 1) mountains running north and south between west longitude 150 and 145; 2) indications that the Scott Nunataks, Alexandra and Rockefeller Mountains were island-tops. Meanwhile Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, looking for earth and rocks to dig, with George (''Mike") Thorne of Chicago (rescuer of Boy Scout Paul Siple last summer and regarded as perhaps the hardiest man in the Byrd Expedition) and John S. O'Brien, tried to climb Liv Glacier up which Byrd's plane flew to the South Pole. Thwarted, they...