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There are eight bedrooms, four baths, a big circular living room, a study. Oak logs faced with birch bark make the outer walls. Inside are oriental rugs, French wicker furniture, maple piano (inlaid with gold), Italian oak panelling, brass bedsteads...
...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...
...Harvard graduates have received American Field Service Fellowships for French Universities for the year 1927-28. These fellowships are granted to graduates of American Colleges for study in some University in France. R. E. Fleming, medical school '25, has been granted a fellowship in Biology, while A. F. Birch '24, who won one in 1926 and who has been studying physics in Strasbourg for the past year has had his fellowship renewed for a second year...
...Spiritual Bridge" was the term used for the new Casa de las Espanas, Inc. (home of the Spanish-speaking peoples) created by the purchase of Grand Central Palace and the Park-Lexington Building. Manhattan. Spanish and American businessmen backers are headed by Col. Thomas H. Birch, onetime Minister to Portugal and President of the Trust Co. of North America. Consulates, schools, commercial exhibits, offices and a bank are to be located on the property...
...chief did not frequent art galleries, nor stand enrapt before a masterpiece, but he did appreciate loveliness?a rose, a stunning woman, a birch tree, a sunset. . . When in romantic and florid terms he was wont to tell of the dream [of a ducal estate in Austria he thought of buying, complete with 'superb art gallery'] ... he always saved the art gallery for the climax, and when he came to that his voice would take on a note almost of reverence as he told of the wonderful gallery and the priceless masterpieces...