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...Around a bend in the track near the Naperville, Ill. Country Club last week streaked Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R.'s streamliner Zephyr. Down within 200 ft. above it swooped a trim red Lockheed Vega with a pilot, two commercial photographers and a script girl aboard, hired to get some shots of the silvery train to be used by C. B. & Q. for publicity. With its engine cut too low for the glide, the little monoplane was suddenly caught in the vortex of air caused by the stream-liner's passage. Out of control, it banked sharply...
...London's New Burlington Galleries, surrealist artists from 14 countries held their first British exhibition. Londoners gaped at The Last Voyage of Captain Cook, a wire globe enclosing a striped female torso. Object Made by a Madman was a basket containing scraps of glass, scissor blades. Beside it hung a pair of white dancing slippers, their heels encased in paper cutlet frills, a waiter's jacket strung with liqueur glasses half filled with creme de menthe. Tory visitors bristled at The Minotaure, a portrait of the late, great Lord Kitchener of Khartum with a tiny, sad-faced child...
...campus of Chicago and was raised on the campus of Michigan, he was born on the campus of Vermont when his father, having edited the Providence, R. I. Journal during the Civil War and taught a spell at Brown, briefly took over the sickly State University at Burlington. James Rowland Angell does not like to have it forgotten that he is descended from nine generations of Rhode Islanders and he en joys recalling that since the old Angell farm lies at the bottom of Providence's reservoir, the citizens to this day drink water filtered through his ancestors...
...Milwaukee; Burlington; Chicago & North Western; Rock Island; Great Northern; Illinois Central; Soo Line. Chicago Great Western has since dropped...
...Born 62 years ago in Burlington, Vt., where his father was a physician, Arthur Atwater Kent was sent to Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute on the strength of his youthful preoccupation with electrical and mechanical gadgets. After graduation he worked for a little New Hampshire tool company. In Philadelphia in 1902 he set himself up as a maker of batteries, battery testers and intercommunicating telephone systems. His first plant was in a loft where the floor cracks were so wide that he never needed a dustpan...