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Also to be set up at Rio is a fully equipped laboratory. Aided by the flood of technical research from the world-famed G.E. laboratory at Schenectady, Rio engineers will devote their main study to the possibilities of using more Brazilian raw materials in the manufacture of electrical equipment.
Retreat from Beauty. When Nadi came to the U.S. in 1935, society ladies mobbed him. Horrified at the flaccid clumsiness of some of his overstuffed clients at Elizabeth Arden's beauty salon, where he was Director of Fencing, Aldo soon quit to devote himself to serious fencers and children...
Suave, brainy Ely Culbertson, who has never thought of himself as merely a bridge expert, tossed aside his famed, profitable Culbertson System four years ago to devote himself to a greater ambition: planning a postwar world system which would be as orderly, logical and responsive as a deck of cards...
When Tommy Beecham was born, in 1879, the elaborate Beecham home, in St. Helens near Liverpool, already contained an assortment of pianos and pipe organs. Beecham père soon added the latest gadget in mechanical music, a reed orchestrion, which made Wagner sound like a merry-go-round. Tommy...
Although a great many under graduates have come to regard it as a pre-examination breathing spell, the reading period was originally adopted, back in 1927-28, in order to provide a greatly overtaxed Harvard faculty with a periodic relief from formal academic duties, which they might devote to independent...