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Three Harvard scientists, William C. Darrah, Research Curator of the Botanical Museum, Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, and Derwent S. Whittlesey, Associate Professor of Geography, will combine their talents in addressing a symposium on "Climate and the Living World," scheduled for tomorrow night at New Lecture Hall. The meeting is being sponsored by the Harvard Chapter of Gamma Alpha Scientific Fraternity and will convene at 8 o'clock...
...speakers will talk on climate as it pertains to their particular field. Dr. Darrah's subject will be "Climate as Interpreted by a Paleobotanist"; Professor Mather will deal with "Climate and Animal Evolution"; while Associate Professor Whittlesey will discuss "Climate as an Element in the Landscape...
...distributing coppers to the poor on Maundy Thursday at Westminster Abbey, now boarded up in preparation for the Coronation, was discharged last week by the Archbishop of Canterbury at St. Paul's Cathedral, for His Majesty is being spared "fatiguing public appearances." Chicago Tribune's David Darrah and United Press's Dan Rogers broke stories that the Archbishop of Canterbury is slashing the Coronation Service right & left in efforts to get it as short and unfatiguing as possible, has decided to omit the sermon, hopes to telescope the ritual from a service normally of about four hours...
...herbalist named George Andrew McMahon, his revolver and King Edward (TIME, July 27). The nature of this incident as ultimately aired in court was something upon which Fleet Street found it financially safer not to comment last week. Almost alone was the Chicago Tribune in sending its Correspondent David Darrah to report what the herbalist's lawyer Alfred Kerstein had to say as he moved to appeal the case to a higher British court this week...
...prove his point Dr. Darrah went to history, discovered some soft-headed doings by folk generally considered to have been quite hardheaded. "Queen Victoria," he revealed, "commanded that her dead husband's clothing be laid out afresh every evening, also water in his basin, and this astonishing rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana...