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National Chairman John T. Adams, promptly at the appointed hour, called the Convention to order. John Philip Sousa stepped to his side. The lights went out, amber and purple auroras spread from the ceiling. Sousa rapped with his baton. His band struck up The Star Spangled Banner, followed by The Stars and Stripes Forever...
American Chemical Society elected to its presidency Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Chemical Enterpreneur and Honorary Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. Dr. Baekeland, a Belgian by birth, is an American by adoption. He is best known for his invention of "bakelite," the synthetic substitute for hard rubber and amber, widely used in pipe-stems, billiard balls, fountain pens...
...frugally in a simple shack in the North Carolina mountains, does his own work except for a clay-boy and a horse to turn his mixing-wheel. From the rich mineral clay of the region he shapes and bakes vases and bowls of exquisite pattern and myriad hues-rose, amber, mahogany, violet, sang de boeuf. Some of his types, known as "Omar Khayyam vases," command high prices from connoisseurs. No two of his pieces are alike...
...Treasure Island with all its largess of romance falls short of exhausting the store. Some of the things Stevenson missed, Herman Melville found in the South Seas--and wrote "Typee." Days of the fear of sudden death; days of drowsy, warm forgetfulness; dark seas curling over glistening sands; amber sun-light through the palm-fronds, caressing the face of tough old chief, or wrinkled medicine-man, or startling the shadows from the soft eyes of Fayaway...
...Galsworthy's Justice' as a whole falls below the dramatic level of the 'Eldest Son.'" There is a conventionally humorous consideration of that time-honored subject, "Cambridge Weather." There is a conventional undergraduate story, "The Flame," the heroine of which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber of a Virginia sunset"--"soft, delicate, and passionless." And there is the usual amount of conventionally correct verse, with one piece, "Escaped," by Mr. W. A. Norris, that is more individual and distinguished than the rest. Even Mr. Cowley's vers libre is conventional according to the standards of "Spoon...