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Born a slave, liberated in 1865 when his master, a Confederate captain, returned from the war, Richard Wright had his resolute, ambitious mother to thank for his education. She and her free brood tramped 150 miles from Cuthbert to Atlanta, Ga. There he worked his way through Atlanta University (1876) and became first president of Georgia State Industrial College. He spent many a vacation taking short courses at Harvard, University of Chicago. Oxford, topped them off with a night banking course in the University of Pennsylvania-and so, after 30 years of academic work, became a banker...
That young men turn both idle and fanciful in spring, and that young men are not the only ones, was a truism examined last week at a Manhattan medical celebration. At the opening of Mount Sinai Hospital's enlarged department of physical therapy, Professor Henry Cuthbert Bazett of the University of Pennsylvania gave an explanation for this seasonal phenomenon. In spring, said Professor Bazett, a human being's blood volume increases by a fifth to a third. He learned this fact by immuring himself in an air-conditioned laboratory for twelve days last winter. Outside it was sleety...
Lieutenant Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon is a distinguished British authority on aeronautics, ''First Englishman to Fly in England," past president of the Royal Aeronautical Society. In his Who's Who entry, Colonel Moore-Brabazon lists his recreations as "golf, tobogganing, yachting." Last week he was engaged in another kind of recreation which took the form of a very pleasant altercation-not only typically British but typical of the well-ballasted wit of the man of science anywhere-with Professor Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, F. R. S.. F. Inst. P., D. Sc., Quain professor...
...late Judge Cuthbert Pound of New York pungently remarked...
...Author F. Scott Fitzgerald changed Joe Gish into an ape. Last week it was revealed that all this spring a band of prankish seniors at Iowa State College (Ames) had actually persuaded their psychology, botany and chemistry instructors of the existence of an A-rating student named Cuthbert Gleep...