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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight or nine years ago Palmer H. Craig was working for his doctors' degree at the University of Cincinnati. He had majored in physics so his thesis consisted chiefly of reports on numerous experiments. He spent weeks on experiments of different kinds. Some were failures, some were partially successful. He labored hard for he was interested in his work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/11/1927 | See Source »

...chapel announcements at Mercer University (Macon, Ga.) were more interesting than usual one morning last week. They included the romantic story of a hardworking young professor suddenly grown rich. He was Palmer H. Craig, 29, head of the Mercer physics department, a doctor of philosophy only these seven months. While working up his doctor's thesis at the University of Cincinnati he had made an invention. Now the Westinghouse Electric Co. had offered him $100,000. The invention, simplicity itself, was designed to replace the batteries and vacuum tubes of the ordinary radio receiving set. It consisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bismuth | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

Married. Joan Kaufman, daughter of Louis Graveraet Kaufman, President of Chatham Phenix National Bank, Manhattan; to George Drexel Biddle, son of Craig Biddle (finance), of Philadelphia; in Manhattan. Flower girls wore frocks copied from Lawrence's portrait of "Pinkie" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Playhouse 48th E. Broadway--Daisy Mayme. In this play, George Kelly has caught what Stark Young calls "the shino of life". It is the most real of the plays by the author of the "Show-Off" and "Craig's Wife...

Author: By T. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

Gore Hall: Thomas Francis Mason, 70 Corl Schurz Petrasch Jr., 54; Arthur Lithgow Devens Jr., 52; Atherton Rogers Maynard, 48; Craig Wylie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STANDISH, GORE AND SHEPHERD HALL COMMITTEES ELECTED | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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