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...Verdi's melodies like possessed hurdy-gurdies. His tenors and sopranos bellow lustily. His triumphal scenes contain not only singers and ballet dancers but live donkeys and horses, sometimes elephants and camels. In a fit of showmanship a few years ago he signed up Jack Johnson, Negro heavyweight emeritus, chained him to an Egyptian chariot, plastered Manhattan with billboards advertising "Jack Johnson...
...strict truth about carnivorous plants (The Carnivorous Plants; Chronica Botanica Co., Waltham, Mass; $6) is the business of McGill University's Emeritus Professor of Botany Francis Ernest Lloyd. After twelve years' work, field trips in South Africa, Australasia and North America, he has published the first comprehensive treatise on the subject since Charles Darwin's Insectivorous Plants...
Joseph H. Beale '82, Royall Professor of Law, emeritus, a legal expert whose opinions were quoted throughout the nation, died Wednesday at his Chauncy Street home. Professor Beale was 81 years old, and spent 47 years teaching at the Law School...
...service benefits, a third of which will go to the U. S. O., will begin this week with a special sound film to be shown at the New Lecture Hall at 4:00 o'clock today, according to a report from Julian L. Coolidge '95, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, who heads the drive in the University...
...useful 'Poonsters, Harry Meryman, for the was known to be gifted mechanically. He had connected the telephone to the radio, and he had made the lights blink; now he would turn his skill to a more essential task than trying to induce merryment. Thus it was that the Narthex emeritus journeyed to the wilds of Dublin, N. H. and there did perfect a marvelous machine which ran on steam...