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Steel pens, made to slip into a holder, were a 19th Century development, although some experiments occured before. Scientist Joseph Priestly, in 1780, designed and ordered made a steel pen that resembled a quill, just as anciently the quill imitated the reed. Birmingham, Eng., became the home of the steel pen; it continues so. In the U. S. Camden, N. J., where the Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co. was established in 1860, has been the great center...
Pacing his room in a Manhattan hotel, Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N. retired, said he was so perturbed by the cruiser news from Eng land that he could think of nothing else. He quoted, without naming, a high U. S. official who viewed the British move as a British bluff, an effort to discredit and obstruct the Coolidge program in the 70th Con gress, which meets this week...
...Anthony John Capper Magian, famed Manchester, Eng., gynecologist, last week flatly said that during the past ten years he had transplanted ovaries from healthy women to 100 apparently sterile women and that many of the repaired patients had subsequently borne children...
Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.) Eugene Gifford Grace, president Bethlehem Steel Corp. D. Eng William David Coolidge, scientist D. Sc. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor...
...qualifying round of the annual North and South Amateur tournament, Voight achieved the kind of scoring ordinarily unknown outside of dreams. The first 18 holes he made in 67, the second in 68, a total just one stroke above Bobby Jones's record of 134, at Sunningdale, Eng., last summer...