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Died. Gustavus Augustus Eisen, 93, Swedish-American biologist (he corresponded with Darwin, found a way to raise figs in California, got Sequoia National Park created to save the big trees), archeologist (he dug up weighty evidence to prove that the Chalice of Antioch was Sir Galahad's Grail), author (he published some no works, the last a huge monograph on Mesopotamian Cylinder-Seals); in Manhattan...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh endured quietly Charles Augustus Lindbergh's fame, the tragedy of a kidnapping, her husband's descent from his pedestal of public divinity, and the publication of two successful books (North to the Orient, Listen! the Wind...
...Post Office began issuing a series of "Famous Americans" on postage stamps. It ran through authors, poets, educators, scientists, composers, inventors-five of each. Last week it was busy with artists. Already on sale were Portraitist Gilbert Stuart (1?), James A. McNeill Whistler (2?). Out last week went Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens (3?) and Daniel Chester French Frederic Remington, famed Indian and cowboy painter (10?), goes on sale next week. The first four artists' stamps were not likely to make stamp users very art-conscious. They were, respectively, a hideous green, a hackneyed red, a sickly magenta, a commonplace...
...newly-formed Roosevelt-for-President club elected its officers last night at its initial meeting. John M. London '41, president of the Guardian, was named President, Henry Stephens IV '41, Vice-President, and Augustus Thorndike III '41, Treasurer...
George Sand was born with one great advantage over other Romantics-her great-great-grandfather was Augustus the Strong, King of Poland. Her great-grandfather was Augustus' bastard son, the famous soldier and tactician, Marshal Maurice de Saxe. Her grandmother married the Count de Horn, bastard son of Louis XV. Her mother was the daughter of a poolroom proprietor. Her husband was the bastard son of Baron Dudevant...