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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fuller brought suit for $2,000. Though the jury's verdict was in his favor, the trial judge set it aside. Last week the Appellate Court upheld the trial judge. Reason: According to De Paul, ten years ago John B. Fuller was Rev. Bernard J. Fuhler, Austrian-born priest of the Society of the Divine Word, who taught at St. Mary's College (Techny, Ill.), was sent to the University of Chicago for his Ph.D., then departed for Europe on leave of absence after quietly marrying one Arline Kuber in Buffalo. All 'that St. Mary...
...Horace Klein was advertising manager of a nondescript magazine called the Farmer's Wife. Its publisher was Edward A. Webb who also ran The Farmer, a poultry paper. Horace Klein carried back to St. Paul "Uncle" Henry's message and Publisher Webb decided to let his India-born, missionary-trained sister, Dr. Ella S. Webb, try her hand at missionary work among farm women. He made her editor of the Farmer's Wife and under her zealous direction the monthly magazine thrived...
Discovered by Dr. Otto Struve, Rus-sian-born director of Yerkes, and two associates, the big star is an obscure companion of Epsilon Aurigae, a well-known star not far from Capella. Even more diffuse than Antares, it is believed to have a temperature of only 1,000° C., lowest of any star known. Around the main body of the star is a shell of gas electrified by light from Epsilon Aurigae, in the same way that the electrified shell or "radio mirror" around earth is maintained by radiation from the sun. This phenomenon has never before been observed...
...Angelo Henry ("Hank") Luisetti, son of a restaurant chef, is the No. 1 product of this extraordinary coaching regime. He is considered so superior to all other basketball players this year that he is one of the few basketball subjects over which there is no controversy. Born & bred on that little strip of San Francisco waterfront that produced Base-bailers Joe Di Maggio, Frank Crosetti and Tony Lazzeri, Basketballer Luisetti is rated one of the best-of-all-time in basketball. A clever passer, spectacular dribbler, amazingly accurate marksman (with either hand or both), he has effected some...
...after a buzz saw cut off the fingers of a German-born wood turner named John Jacob Bausch, he went tc work selling spectacles in partnership with one Henry Lomb. When Founder Bausch'< son, Edward, learned to fashion microscopes, and sell them, too, Bausch & Lomb began to prosper. Smart Edward Bausch established contacts with the famed German firm of Carl Zeiss in 1890 and before long Bausch & Lomb was using Zeiss patents with exclusive rights to the U. S. market. Shortly thereafter Zeiss bought one-fifth of Bausch & Lomb stock and warmed by increasing royalties from Rochester, began schooling...