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...Arnheim, Holland, Aeneas Alexander Mackay, 13th Baron Reay, Chief of the Scottish Clan of Mackay, self-exiled in the Netherlands because of a feud between his ancestors and Charles (1600-1649), summoned his relatives to celebrate his "coming of age." Proud, they beheld him stand before them, 6 ft., 9 in. in his stockings, "the tallest peer...
...stood 20 or 30 feet from his marveling audience and drew for them geometrical designs they pictured mentally; uttered correctly combinations of figures in the hundred-thousands; rendered pieces of remembered music. When they departed, not one of the distinguished guests had a satisfactory explanation for what they had beheld. Dr. Lasker, a student of mental matters, assured them that Mr. Khaldah's feats ranged from those familiar in telepathy to others for which there were only two or three precedents. Another "seance" was arranged at the home of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, the physicist whose work helped Einstein...
...mechanic-president, had seen the hard time coming. He arranged with the Radio Corporation of America for a combination radio and talking machine week Victor reported earnings of $5,648,446 in the first nine months of 1926ime talking machine, before which Nipper one day squatted inquiringly. Painter Barraud beheld a picture of popular appeal. To brighten up his canvas be borrowed a brass horn from the Gramophone Company Ltd., English subsidiary of Victor, which bought the finished picture, later pensioning Painter Barraud...
...second to no other collection of Gambia stamps), Alfred F. Lichtenstein, Swiss stamp collector, Miss Ellen F. Nason of Claremont, N. H., collector of Arabian stamps, with all the special issues for Jeddah and Nejd -these and many more sent their best. But one and all, when they beheld a black and magenta stamp lying by itself in a case ten times too big for it, bowed in reverence. This stamp bears upon its breast in bold letters the words "One Cent." Its owner, Arthur Hind, of Utica, paid $32,500 for it. It is the most valuable stamp...
Stanley Baldwin, Premier of Britain: "The secret leaked out last week that recently, when I passed through Paris on my way home from Aix-les-Bains, I arrived at the French capital asleep, though the hour was 10 a. m. Rubbing startled eyes, I beheld through the window of my sleeping compartment a silk-hatted delegation of welcome from President Doumergue. Discomfited but not nonplused I dressed hastily and managed to receive my well-wishers just before my car was switched onto a train destined for Calais...