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"What would Haitians think of these faces?" wondered strollers through the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan, last week. At them leered, from canvas, black faces-the faces of Negro Frenchmen, Negro Britishers, Negro Jews. The faces-explained a leaflet signed by famed Explorer William Beebe-were part of an artistic haul made...
Married. William Beebe, 50, famed scientist, explorer, author; to Miss Elswyth Ricker ("Elswyth Thane"), 27, novelist; on a yacht off Oyster Bay, L. I. Present were Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. & others. Mr. Beebe was divorced from his first wife, the onetime Mary Blair Rice, in 1913. One week later she...
In TIME, June 6, p. 40, in the footnote of the article entitled "Expeditions," you state that Mr. Beebe transmitted the sound waves of his voice to an "amanuensis" at the sea's surface.
The Beebe expeditions are sent out by the New York Zoological Society. A party of ten went this time, traveling under sail, living in deck tents, trying to see how cheaply a four-month expedition can be run with comfort and valid results.
?The upper end of this tube was split into two branches?one supplying Mr. Beebe with air, the other connecting with a delicate telephone receiver. Thus, Mr. Beebe utilized the column of air which kept him alive, to transmit the sound waves of his voice to an amanuensis at...