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...Birthdays. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90 (first surgeon to reach Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth...
...several months it has been a Rockefeller Institute secret that Dr. Alexis Carrel, famed Nobel laureate, had enlisted Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's aid in his researches on tissue culture and the transplantation of organs. Although Col. Lindbergh dealt with few at the Institute, peeping typists recognized the tall, fair-haired young...
...calls ''Superior California." The San Joaquin Valley, stretching to the south, was until a few years ago swayed by Editor Chester Harvey Rowell's morning Fresno Republican, long famed throughout the State as a fearless journal. In 1920 Publicist Rowell sold out to the Brothers Chase Salmon and George Augustus Osborn, sons of former Governor Chase Salmon Osborn of Michigan. Quick to seize the opening, the McClatchys invaded Fresno, established the afternoon Fresno Bee in 1922. Slowly, steadily the Bee has nibbled away at the Republican's circulation and advertising. Last week the McClatchys acquired the Republican, merged it into...
Birthdays. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90 (first surgeon to reach Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth); Andrew William Mellon, 77; Richard Beatty Mellon, 74; King Fuad of Egypt, 64; Florenz Ziegfeld, 63; the Knights of Columbus...
...design the original Madison Square Garden, an arena in New York to house circuses, horse shows, prize fights, dog shows, a beer garden and cabaret, he found it suitable to clap a copy of Seville's Giraldo Tower on one side and then get his good friend Augustus St. Gaudens to set a 13-ft. nude Greek goddess tiptoe on the Moorish-Gothic-Renaissance cathedral belfry. Beyond its inappropriateness, the Garden tower was a lovely thing and New York cherished her Diana. For almost 40 years newspaper poets, after-dinner speakers, prize fighters, cab drivers, club members waxed sentimental...