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In the gentle beginning of Spain's revolution five years ago, Madrid cafe-sitters loved to embroider the idle theory that the person really responsible for the rise of Spanish Socialism was Sosthenes Behn, U. S. board chairman of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., the man who brought the radio...
At a Cincinnati dock, one sultry afternoon, Mary Becker Greene stood in the wheelhouse of her newest steamboat, peered up the Ohio River, impatiently fingered the wheel. Hefty "Ma" Greene is the only licensed woman navigator on inland waterways in the U. S. With her two hefty sons, Tom and...
It was in a sun-lit Tudor park that our good friend and scholar, Roger Aseham, first caught sight of Lady Jane Grey. The little child of thirteen summers was reading ". . . Phaedo Platonis, and that with as much delights as some gentelmen would read a merrie tale in Roeeaeeio." The...
The Book, By this point readers may begin to see why Author Mann, with all of Europe's complicated culture to embroider on, chose rather to go back to Asia to wake a slumbering legend. Originally attracted by the charm and the tantalizing brevity of this "natural narrative" of...
Brodeur Kahn first attracted public attention with a hen's egg known as "Strasbourg" which he sent to the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs. After drilling 1,634 holes in the shell, he embroidered a view of the city on it. He broke 23 eggs before he completed "Strasbourg...