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While studying under Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, Manhattan Artist Elizabeth Ely de Vescovi Whitman met a Mexican chemist, Gonzalez de la Vega, founder of the faculty of chemical sciences at the University of Mexico, who shared her interest in experiments at keeping frescoes fresh. First sign of success in their collaboration came when they used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made...
Died. Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, 87, founder and first President of the Czechoslovakian Republic: of pneumonia; at Chateau de Lany, near Prague. The son of a coachman, Masaryk worked his way through the Universities of Vienna and Leipzig to a Ph.D. in 1876. Two years later he married an American, Charlotte Garrigue, who died in 1923. After a long career of teaching and cafe politics, he founded his own political party, was elected to the Diet in 1907. With the World War, Masaryk, sensing the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, won the Allied powers to the cause...
...vindictive Sap struck, and last week came within an ace of wrecking Paul van Zeeland's entire political career. By no means wealthy, Paul van Zeeland is nevertheless Europe's only banker-Premier. He served as secretary, director and later as vice governor of the Banque Nationale de Belgique for many years, but punctiliously resigned his post on assuming the Premiership...
Died. Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, 74, founder of the modern Olympic Games; after an apoplectic stroke; in Geneva, Switzerland...
...GONCOURT JOURNALS-Edmond & Jules de Goncourt; edited and translated by Lewis Galantiere-Doubleday, Doran...