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...their leisure were some twoscore scientific notables: Sir William Bragg, Nobel prizeman now lecturing at Cornell; Mt. Wilson Observatory's famed Walter Sydney Adams; Research Directors Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories and Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of Eastman Kodak; Astronomers Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory and Clyde Fisher of Manhattan; Assistant Director Lyman James Briggs of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and Dr. Arthur Louis Day, Carnegie Institution geophysicist...
...Died. Clyde ("Pea Ridge"-from Pea Ridge, Ark. his hometown) Day, 32, baseball pitcher for Brooklyn, Cincinnati, St. Louis and other teams, known for his eccentricities and hog-calling; by his own hand (slashing his throat); in Kansas City...
Fortnight ago the Mississippi Senate passed a bill to permit Clyde Collins, outraged father, to hang three Negroes convicted of attacking his daughter Mildred. Reason for the special privileges was that an appeal by him to a mob had saved the three attackers from lynching (TIME, March 19). Last week as the day for the hanging approached. Father Collins saw his chance of executing personal justice gradually fade. The Mississippi House buried the hanging bill in committee...
...Miss, a month ago when three black bucks were put on trial for raping a 16-year-old school girl. Mississippi's Adjutant General Thomas Grayson thought he saw a way to avoid it. He asked the father of the girl to write a note to the mob. Clyde Collins ''consented with reluctance to let the law take its course,'' asked the mob to disperse. Short time later the Negroes were convicted, sentenced to hang...
Teachers College's bald, nervous Clyde R. Miller, reaching Cleveland early, key-noted before the Cleveland Schoolmasters' Club: "Two percent of the people in the nation control 85% of the wealth and I suspect that if they could sell air they would get a corner on it and let the rest of us suffocate."* Among his list of a dozen "axioms" were: 1) Life is worth living. If it isn't we ought to stand the unemployed up and shoot them or let them starve as our financial interests now blandly permit. 2) Most people...