Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must to all men, Death came last week to John William Navin Sullivan. Son of a poor Irish sailor, Sullivan was one of the world's four or five most brilliant interpreters of physics to the world of common men-physics being a prosaic name for that vast branch of science which embraces the giddiest reaches of the universe, the four-dimensional time-space continuum of Relativity, the hidden dance and pulsations of electrons. He was also a novelist, a musician, a philosopher-above all, a dreamer...
...good friend's inn. Last April Mr. Bingham gave $400,000 to found for Professor Joseph Hersey Pratt of Boston's Tufts Medical School, a Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Hospital. Last week Mr. Bingham increased this by $300,000 and thus soundly financed a useful and needy branch of Medicine...
...sound tracks make their continuous work unnecessary, 11,000 musicians are permanently unemployed and many more suffer, but not in silence, sporadic layoffs. Long an opponent of "canned" music, author of the first ban on recordings without union sanction was James C. Petrillo, surly boss of the Chicago branch of the American Federation of Musicians. Petrillo's ban lost Chicago musicians $125,000 worth of record and radio dates, but it made Petrillo a Labor hero (TIME, Jan. 4). That he would urge national adoption of the record ban was a foregone conclusion at the recent...
...onetime world's No. 1 trapeze artist, onetime husband of famed trapezist Lillian Leitzel, founder of the famed "Flying Codonas"; by his own hand, after shooting and fatally wounding his third wife, Trapezist Leitzel's onetime protégée, Vera Bruce; in a Long Branch, Calif, lawyer's office. Two years after Lillian Leitzel's death from a fall in Copenhagen in 1931, Trapezist Codona was severely injured by a fall during a performance of his famed triple somersault in Philadelphia. Despondent over his inability to perform professionally, he last week went to confer...
...Baton Rouge stopped firing. The captain's big grin marked the hits. Occasionally they picked up a few survivors from a torpedoed boat ahead. Armed guard duty, which consisted of operating a gun aboard the freighters themselves, was the riskiest job of all. So Rex transferred to that branch. When he met Corra, the beautiful wife of an anemic New York newspaper man, he was tempted for the first time to accept a commission. Instead he decided merely to shoot straighter thereafter. But one day Corra announced bitterly that her husband had tuberculosis and she could not leave...