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After excellent training abroad and a brief career as an organ virtuoso, Paine became director of music here in 1862. When President Eliot took over the reins in 1869, music was given an especially important role in the revised curriculum. In 1875 Paine was promoted to a full professorship, which was the first chair in music at an American university. As a composer, he was especially versatile, turning out many symphonies, tone poems, operas, overtures, and cantatas. In the present display are included copies of his "Columbus March and Hymn" for the 1893 World's Fair, his "Harvard Hymn...
Young, brilliant, tradition-breaking Defense Minister Colonel Luang Bipul Songgram has had a spectacular career in Siamese politics, featured by frequent promotions and escapes from assassination. Three years ago an assassin fired at him, winged him at a football game at Bangkok. Three months ago his own valet fired two shots at him, missed...
...Oscar Riddle was born in Cincinnati, Ind., got his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, after returning from a natural history expedition to South America's Orinoco River, was well on the way to becoming an ichthyologist when a lecture on evolution gave a new turn to his career. He went to the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor in 1912 as a research associate, and, except for a Wartime sojourn in France, has stayed there ever since...
...Paris, police arrested Bernard Tanenzapf, former president of Pathe Cinema,-on charges of embezzling at least $3,660,000. Lean, black-mustached, fiftyish, Bernard Tanenzapf, who also called himself Bernard Natan, started his career somewhere in Central Europe. He arrived in Paris about 1920, organized several small but profitable cinema producing companies, bought out Pathe's founder, Charles Pathe...
...minutes later she asked how he felt, little Thomas answered: "Thank you, madam, the agony is abated." At eight he wrote his Compendium of Universal History, a record of leading events from creation to the current year (1808). Next followed a long heroic poem, part of which celebrated the career of his father, Zachary, famed abolitionist and founder of the Bible Society (forerunner of the Gideon Society). At twelve, with little effort, he memorized Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress...