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...away from school to work for Cyrus Hermann Kotschmar Curtis when that famed publisher was starting the Ladies' Home Journal, and entered business for himself at 20. He knew nothing then of electricity, "knows less today," yet is now president of a large concern making electrical apparatus (Cutter Electric & Manufacturing Co.) by reason of a genius for not interfering with men trained to their jobs. "He smokes incessantly, has no love for automobiles, regards a screwdriver with suspicion and a monkey-wrench with horror." Modest, he will permit no one to address him as "Doctor," though his abiding passion...
...heard a pistol crack and scurried past a buoy at Cowes, England. Pennants crackled stiffly at mastheads; admirals, generals, statesmen, literary lions, captains of industry, peers and parasites eyed the heeling white boats, for it was the first day of the famed Cowes Week, and the King's cutter with Prince Henry and the Duke of Connaught aboard was racing against Sir Thomas and the others. Doubtless in the gnarled heart of that connoisseur of defeats there pricked, for a moment, the thrill of the possibility of victory; his boat was first at the gun; the royal cutter slipped...
...made her acquaintance on a train. Gossips beheld the illumination as the lurid glare of scandal. Bisbee's wife wailed and railed. Bisbee's business boomed. Long after, when the princess wrote for a pair of patent spectacles, Bisbee postured, privately but gallantly, with a paper cutter...
About noon, the N25 took the air again, bearing all six adventurers. A guard of honor of five planes flew with it up the bay to Oslo, circling away as the N25 described a triumphant arc and settled to the water offthe "honor pier." A navy cutter came alongside, battleships and Fort Akershus boomed salute, the populace of Oslo yelled and waved a welcome. Director Thormessen of the Norwegian Aero Club rushed forward, embraced each of the six fervently. There were speeches in a pavilion decked as for a returning Caesar with streaming flags and two gilt, victory-winged pylons...
Idlers along the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass., last week beheld a scene out of the sepia supplements of the Sunday papers. A beamy, 35-foot Navy cutter was moving steadily by, showing neither smoke nor sail and emitting a "put-put-put" altogether too faint to be coming from a gasoline motor proportionate to the craft's size. Men on the deck were observing a smokeless stack that rose amidships, a cylinder 3½ feet in diameter and 9½ feet high. The stack was revolving. The vessel was a U. S. rotorship-the first...