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Pretending that George Washington had come for a medical examination, Professor Walter Augustus Wells, Washington, D.C. ear-nose-&-throat specialist, worked up a medical case history of the First President. The finished "history" he published last week in Hygeia...
...Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus for his patron, King Frederick Augustus of Saxony. He returned twice to Sinai, the second time under the patronage of Tsar Alexander II Oi Russia. He was shown more manuscript, including the Epistle of Barnabas which was not previously known to exist in Greek. This he spent a whole night frantically copying, exclaiming...
...Continuing their long delving into the Athenian marketplace, men under Princeton's Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear sifted 23,000 tons of earth, turned up 15,000 coins of ancient Greece and the nations who traded with her. Another prize was a broad-browed, calm-eyed marble bust of Augustus, first Roman Emperor, intact except for the tip of the nose. Still another was a Mycenaean sepulchre containing a "very unusual" gold signet ring and three skeletons. On the site of old Corinth, Princeton's Professor Richard Stillwell was excited when he uncovered a mosaic floor...
...onetime boy-prodigy, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., has been the cockiest and brainiest of the Roosevelt brain trust. He accepted, last week, the office of City Chamberlain on condition that the office eventually be abolished and that its salary meanwhile be curtailed. Mr. Berle has a teaching job at Columbia, a private law practice, is in demand as an author of newspaper articles and must be available for duty at the White House as well as at City Hall...
...late go's. But Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter, Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, went down to the sale as did 300 other Washington socialites, for under the auctioneer's hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman who as commander of the U. S. Asiatic Squadron sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor, May Day, 1898. For exactly two years it lasted. Congress made George Dewey a full admiral, first since...