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Last week's newest prize-sharer was Sir Henry Hallett Dale, director of London's National Institute for Medical Research. His prize-mate: Professor Otto Loewi of Austria's old University of Graz. Their joint reward: about...
...WING SHOTS-Albert Dixon Simmons-Deny dale ($15). Born a Canadian, and a bird lover since his tenth year, Albert Simmons at 44 has perfected a technique of photographing game birds in flight, especially ducks and geese, which is better than most men's technique with a gun. He uses a telephoto lens with a sight such that he can "shoot" at arm's length, as with a fowling piece. He has the eye of a killer to focus and centre his pictures perfectly. Printed. on soft paper his exposures lose some definition, but any experienced gunner will...
...mockery which used to animate Critic Henry Mencken when he wrote about backwoods emotions. In Chautauqua, fountainhead of the adult education movement of 40 years ago, Author Carmer found much that was pleasant, picturesque, inane, a disproportion of old people, a general air of faded, genteel charm. In Lily Dale, centre for spiritualists, he spent the most fantastic day in his life going to seances, listening to spirit rappings, interviewing mediums...
Illinois went in for barns, with a dazzling red one by Dale Nichols and another by J. William Kennedy. Superbly banal was Paul Trebilcock's slick portrait study of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt in red velvet with her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness. A rare French influence showed in Split Rock Lighthouse by Minnesota's Eleanor DeLaitre, a yellow lighthouse painted with the vivid shallowness of French Modernist Raoul Dufy. Missouri's John de Martelly offered two ably cartooned old crones in Economic Discussion over coffee & doughnuts...
Next forenoon when the Potomac steamed into Nassau Harbor escorted by the destroyers Monaghan and Dale, Franklin Roosevelt had doffed his seagoing shorts and sweat shirt, had decorously attired himself in slacks and a gabardine sport coat to receive his guests. When press and secretaries soared in aboard a Pan-American plane, they found Franklin Roosevelt on the quarter-deck of the Potomac entertaining his guests, the Governor General and Lady Clifford (nee Gundry of Cleveland); Sir George Johnson, President of the Bahamian Legislative Council; U. S. Consul Frank A. Henry & Wife...