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Birch into Mahogany. Many American hardwood trees have no particular commercial value. Herr Fritz von Behr, pioneer tree surgeon of Germany, is working with dye pot and surgical instruments on beeches, birches, maples in Maine to make them eligible for future furniture. He selects sound young trees, makes a pattern of holes in the trunks and roots, injects 75 to 100 gallons of a secret soluble aniline dye. For four days the tree sucks up the dye. On the third day afterward the leaves begin to turn pink, violet, blue, red; the wood becomes tinted. After two weeks the leaves...
Clarence H. De Mar won the race. After him tottered Henigan, up among the winners at last. And after Henigan came Joie Ray, running on his toes. He didn't recognize his own coach, Johnny Behr, who caught him in a blanket. When his shoes were cut away from his swollen and blistered feet it was found that the nails of his big toes had been torn loose from the cuticle. The soles of his feet were bleeding horribly. On the rubbing table his thigh and calf muscles contracted and knotted like wires that have been sustaining a tension...
...White Star)−Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; Frank A. Munsey, publisher; famed surgeons sailing for the International Medical Conference at Lausanne; Alvin W. Krech, President of the Equitable Trust Co.; L. J. Reckford, President of the American Lead Pencil Co.; W. G. L. Behr, California "lumber king"; Eldridge R. Johnson, President of the Victor Talking Machine Co.; Frederick Lonsdale (see above), after three days in the U. S.; John R. Mott, General Secretary of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A.; Frederick Toppin, Vice President of the International Mercantile Marine...
...soloists on the program are to be congratulated. W. F. Manning '22 played Behr's calm flute solo "Nocturne" and, for encore piece, Mouquet's "Dorian Greek Dance", with feeling; while I. H. Rosenberg '22 gave two violin selections by Kreisler, the languorous. "Old Refrain" and, again as encore, "Schon Rosmarin", with a full, sympathetic tone unusual in amateur playing...
...program will be as follows: Coronation March from "Le Prophet" Meyerbeer Overture, "Phedre" Massenet Violin Solo, "The Old Refrain" Kreisler I. H. Rosenberg '22 Harvard Marches: Up the Street Morse Our Director Bigelow Wine, Woman and song Strauss Flute Solo, "Nocturne" Behr W. F. Manning ocC. L' Arlesienne Bizet Overture. Adagletto. Farandole. Fair Harvard Strube