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...curtain is an original oil painting by Claxton Byron Moulton, and is in effect a huge tapestry, measuring 33 feet in width by 17 feet in height...
Died. Dr. George Byron Gordon, 57, able archaeologist, director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum; at Philadelphia, of a fractured skull. After a dinner of the Wilderness Club, where Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt told of their recent Asiatic explorations, Dr. Gordon started upstairs to get his coat, fell backward, cracked his skull on the marble stairs. It is believed he was stricken with paralysis...
...Chicago, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis chewed up many cigars over testimony concerning two dismissed club-managers, Tyrus Cobb (Detroit) and Tristram Speaker (Cleveland), accused of "fixing" a game in 1919 (TIME, Jan. 3). Indications were that both would be exonerated. Meantime a head bigger than theirs was chopped off. Byron Bancroft Johnson, founder of the American League in 1900 and its president ever since, accused Commissioner Landis of wilfully and improperly publishing the Cobb and Speaker evidence after receiving it from the American League. The latter had investigated the cases quietly and dismissed the two men without publicity, to spare...
...unable to raise himself above the tragedy of his own life. "No poet of Northern Europe," says Robertson, "expresses as intensely a Lenau the feeling of 'eternal autumn', of unrelieved depair. And it is almost always a tragic despair, rarely that withering cynicism first made fashionable, by Byron asd imitated by Heine." Finally, when his life seemed on the point of becoming happier and brighter, he suddenly went insane...
Herbert ("Dutch") Leonard, one-time Detroit baseball player, recently gave or sold certain letters to Byron Bancroft Johnson, president of the American League and to Judge Landis, baseball commissioner. Last week the letters were published; scandal flared. It seems, from Leonard's "grudge" testimony and from the letters, that Tyrus Cobb, Tristram Speaker, Joseph Wood and Leonard agreed that Detroit should win the ball game of Sept. 24, 1919, from Cleveland, and that they four would bet on it. Cleveland had second place in the league clinched; Detroit could be allowed to win the game and gain third place...