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Died. David Baird, 87, onetime (1918-19) U. S. Senator from New Jersey; following an acute kidney condition; at Camden...
...they went calling. They called on President William Allan Neilson of Smith College and on Colyumnist Heywood Broun of the New York World; on Advertiser Bruce Barton and President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, Sport-Writer W. O. McGeehan and Actress Genevieve Tobin, Dr. Frank Crane and Critic Baird Leonard of Life. At these, in the pairs named, and at other notables, they directed a rushing stream of questions: "What style of writing did the early Babylonians use?" "What is coral? . . . a centaur? . . . a Bunsen burner? . . . the longest bridge in the world?" "How do kangaroos carry their offspring?" "What...
Seeing Things at Night. In London, Engineer John L. Baird, experimenter in wired television (TIME, Feb. 22), demonstrated his success at utilizing rays adjacent to the visible spectrum-invisible infra-red rays-to see things in complete darkness by mechanical means. The process involved isolating the invisible rays at their source (a special "search-light") and passing them through or to a medium that would render their effect visible. Since infra-red rays can be cast farther than any visible rays, and will penetrate fog and smoke more readily, the inventor predicted important military uses...
...Commandments? I think . . ." The grey-mustachioed gentleman removed from his mouth a long, black stogy, glared at his inquisitor. "Who," said he, "do you think I am?" "Why, Theodore Roberts, the movie actor," gasped the reporter. "You are mistaken, sir! My name is Cummins." Last week great grandfather Albert Baird Cummins, Senator from Iowa, for nearly two decades one of the greatest influences in the governance of the U. S. was stricken with heart disease, died suddenly. Theodore Roberts, merely a grandfather, went on living, acting. On Feb. 15, 1850, a man-child was born in Carmichaels, Pa. Waynesburg College...
Died. Senator Albert Baird Cummins, 76, veteran Iowa political leader; at his home in Des Moines, Iowa, of heart disease. (See THE CONGRESS...