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...Nobel Prizeman Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute a young aviator designed an improved machine to wash blood corpuscles two years ago. described it in an article in Science, signed "C. A. Lindbergh." Of Charles Augustus Lindbergh last week proud Biologist Carrel proclaimed to friends in Paris: "He has become my best assistant in biology. The name he will leave in that science will be as illustrious as that in aviation...
...world Dolores got her start with stocky, tousle-haired Jacob Epstein for whom she posed for a long series of John Singer Sargent painted several por traits of her before he died. Many times she posed for Augustus John, Sir John Lavery, and Christopher Richard Wynne influenced by Futurism and the first to renounce it. Even snobbish Philip de Laszlo decided that Dolores was as important a figure as the princes, promoters and prelates to whom he normally devotes his easels...
...statue "at some suitable place on Central Park preferably on 59th Street." By the time his sons placed the statue where he desired they had spent out of pocket $10,000 more than the bequest. For the sake of symmetry the Pulitzers also had to pay for moving Augustus St. Gaudens' heroic General Sherman on horseback, on the other side of 59th Street. When everything was completed in 1915 and water began to flow into a series of Kentucky limestone basins. General Sherman found himself headed straight for the Lady of the Plaza. For years their affair across 59th...
First to God and then to the President a 12-year-old St. Paul, Minn., boy appealed to grant his three-fold wish: to see the U. S. fleet, to inspect some Army airplanes to own a bicycle. The President was away but Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson offered to grant the first two requests, advised continued prayer for the bicycle...
...would-be midshipman had to jump the hurdle of stiff examinations in six subjects. A decade ago all bars were dropped for appointees with high or preparatory school diplomas. Few years later two bars were put back: examinations in English and mathematics. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson set his seal on a new change. Beginning next autumn, appointees who have satisfactorily completed one year of study in an approved college may enter the academy without examination...