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Colonel Edward Rowland Robinson Green, famed invalid son of the late multimillionairess Hetty Green, received a new automobile to add to his fleet of 25. Built by General Electric Co. and Rauch & Lang Corp., it has a gasoline engine which drives a dynamo and, from the electric current so created, a motor which is connected by a shaft with the rear axle.* Of all Colonel Green's cars only one does he drive, a small electric storage battery car which he uses to go sight-seeing on his estate. Last week, however, he took the wheel...
Brother Gus last week brought in Washington a libel suit for $1,000,000 damages against Mrs. Willebrandt and Current News Features, Inc., which had syndicated her articles. He said he felt such a charge of official misconduct might injure his reputation. In St. Louis he moved to tie up payments to Mrs. Willebrandt by the Post-Dispatch, though this paper, in publishing her article, had deleted from the sentence quoted above all reference to Gus Nations...
Count Hermann Alexander Keyserling, German philosopher-critic, said in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly: ''Chicago is an amazing thing. It is the one place in the United States where one is actually aware of the presence of ungenerosity, ill-will and malice." Commented Mrs. Robert Patterson Lament, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, who entertained Count Keyserling last year in Chicago: "If he disliked Chicago . . . I think the fault must have been with him." Commented another Chicago Keyserling hostess: "I rather think he wrote what he wrote ... to attract attention...
Henry Ford, of booze-dripping Detroit, in an article for the current Pictorial Review, announced: "If booze ever comes back to the United States I am through with manufacturing...
...Congress. Limping on his right foot he tried to avoid a crowd of learned admirers. They crowded about him and forced him to hold a sort of court. He liked the adoration. His early big work was on the salivary glands and on the nerves of the heart. His current work is on the functioning of the brain. Behaviorists have taken up his theories and made them fairly common knowledge. His picture of mental activity is mechanistic. The brain acts according to habits. Certain repeated stimuli condition it (and the physical and physiological activities which it 'controls) so that...