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...little experience as an administrator, Dr. Gasser was uneasy about a job that may curtail the study of nerve physiology on which his scientific reputation stands and that entails the full management of the Rockefeller Institute and the supervision of its 651 employes, including two Nobel Prizewinners and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Before he would accept Dr. Flexner's offer, he went to St. Louis to ask advice of old friends at Washington University where he worked for 15 years. They soothed his qualms, advised him to accept. He returned to Dr. Flexner's office, accepted, went scooting...
...past four months, stolid Bruno Richard Hauptmann has sat in the death house of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton. Convicted of murdering Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the German carpenter from The Bronx has busied himself writing his autobiography. Twenty-three times has he been visited by his loyal, horse-faced wife Anna, who, affecting more modish dress since the Flemington trial, has traveled 6,000 miles, collected $8,300 for her husband's defense. Towheaded Baby Mannfried, an occasional visitor to his father's cell in Flemington, has not been admitted to the death house. Hauptmann...
...Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett's life. Charles Augustus Lindbergh sped to the Rockefeller Institute, snatched a supply of pneumonia serum, sped to his plane, flew to Quebec. But Floyd Bennett died...
Those receiving commissions as Ensigns are: Frederick Stevens Allen, Robert Somers Brookings H, Donald Albert Crafts, Laurens Davis Dawes, David Clapp Drinkwater, George Thomas Dudman, Benjamin Sturtavant Foss, Jr., Donald Howes Gleason, Richard Lagraze, John Nowell Murphy, Grosvenor Proctor, Franklin Augustus Rooce, Jr., Henry Seabury Parker, Jr., John Faunco Roach, Warren Batcheller Stetson, Richard King Thorndike, Jr., Seton Sawyer Williams, Norman Leslie Yood, and Elwood Dadmun Hoynton...
...Disgusted with the barbarism of his own court, he made French the court language, sent Russian artists, most of whom were serfs, abroad to study, imported droves of Italian, German, French craftsmen. At least four Britons brought in were among the founders of Russian secular art: James Walker, John Augustus Atkinson, Edward Miles and Landscapist Richard Brompton...