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...patience and probity. They are not "distinguished" men, as distinction goes, but they are able and honorable. Commissioner John Jacob Esch of La Crosse, Wis., chairman of the Commission last year, served in the U. S. House of Representatives for 21 years before his work with Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa on the Transportation Act of 1920 brought him wide notice. His elevation to the Commission followed in 1921. The new occupant of the Commission's chair (each man has his turn) is Commissioner Johnston B. Campbell, long a railroad lawyer in Duluth and Spokane. Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman...
Estate, Will. Mrs. Mary Baird Bryan last week asked a Miami, Fla., court to explain ambiguities in the will & testament of her husband, the late Lawyer William Jennings Bryan. His estate added...
...Cambridge, with the normal bisexuality of the emotionally unsophisticated, she loved the dazzling and enigmatic Jennifer Baird. Roddy she almost forgot, until once he came to see her and said, "It's no good trying to make me adequate. . . . I'm not worth saving. Nobody must ever take me seriously. . . ." This was a warning which Judith could not heed. When Jennifer left Cambridge, Judith stayed. For two summers she went abroad. Then when Judith went home she found Mariella and the three boys, living again in the house next door...
Noctovision. Last year's tousle-headed John L. Baird* invited members of the Royal Institution to drop in at his London laboratory for a demonstration of television. The two score gentlemen who went were impressed deeply by the ingenuity of Mr. Baird's "optical lever," a series of whirling lenses mounted on discs, which break up an optical image into minute constituent parts. They were even more impressed by the Baird photo-electric cell, of the colloidal selenium type, which could capture and transmit the minute image parts at unprecedented speed. Last week, between sessions of the British Association, members...
...Still in his 30's, son of a Scotch Presbyterian minister, Inventor Baird has won the esteem of Science after overcoming the inventor's traditional obstacles, poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...