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...most famous extravaganza of this period came in 1909, with Charles Frohman's presentation in the Stadium of Schiller's Joan of Arc, starring Maude Adams. The production was under the auspices of the German Department and for the benefit of the Germanic Museum. On a balmy June night 15,000 people filled the Classic Horseshoe to watch Miss Adams and a supporting cast of 1,500 calvarymen, soldiers and archers parade across the Battlefield of France, while a hidden orchestra played Beethovan's "Eroica' Symphony...
...some of its newest metallurgical gadgets. Among them: a lightweight, 145-lb. industrial X-ray machine made by North American Philips Co. Inc., which can be carried in the trunk of a car, used for rapid spot checks on welds, pipelines, aircraft and ship equipment; a powerful new arc-torch made by the Eutectic Welding Alloys Corp. which can eat through concrete in seconds; a hydrogen analysis machine made by the National Research Corp. which for the first time can measure the amount of hydrogen in steel, thus tell steelmen how brittle their finished product...
Albert Herter, the governor's father, inherited old Christian's artistic inclinations, and he too settled in Paris. He married Adele McGinnis, a portrait painter, grew a Vandyke beard, and lived a carefree expatriate life in a pleasant apartment near the Arc de Triomphe. By the time his second son, Christian Archibald, was born in 1895, Albert Herter was a successful muralist, and young Chris came into a world of culture and comfort, if not luxury. German, learned from his governess, was his first language, and by the time he was ready for grammar school he was talking...
...Pfennig mir" ("I'll tell you a verse; you give me a penny.") Customers have flocked to him: schoolchildren who need help on their homework, and adults who want the words of the latest song. Huett has answered everything from "What happens in Schiller's Joan of Arc?" to "Recite some verses from Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz," has even been known to recite a geometric theorem or two. About the only question that has stumped him: "What is the size of a kangaroo at birth...
...Corpus Christi are flooding rivers, and to the west, drought has brought a "little dust bowl." The Bureau recommends a vast $1.1 billion project to build reservoirs along the eastern rivers and channel their flow into a "trans-basin water supply canal," which would swing in a broad arc parallel to the coast and would irrigate 1,000,000 acres of dust-dry farmland. Estimated costs: $370 million for the reservoirs, $680 million for the conduit and pumping lifts, $50 million for irrigation...