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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the three remaining games on the schedule due to be played off this week, this spring's class baseball season is now entering its final lap for the year. The winner of the class championship which is already practically clinched by the Juniors, will face the Yale championship team on the Soldiers Field diamond Saturday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS BASEBALL ENTERS UPON FINAL ROUND WITH GAME TODAY | 5/22/1928 | See Source »

...Washington, the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency is considering a bill to pin another medal on the insomniac inventor. To this committee, one Mrs. Clara Louise Leslie, research collaborator, of Washington, D. C., protested: "It [the bill] would be a slap in the face and at the reputation of every honest inventor whose invention Mr. Edison has claimed for himself. In my studies I found that the microphone, the continuous current transformer and the gramophone, the modern disc talking machine, were invented by Berliner, and that motion pictures were the invention of C. Francis Jenkins. But regardless of patent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Edison Flayed | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Safe Bets-Show Boat, Present Arms, Funny Face, A Connecticut Yankee, Good News, Three Musketeers, Rain or Shine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Headliners in Manhattan | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...earth, nor has any worm yet tunneled the golden passage of its throat. Like the late Nikolai Lenin (among all famed contemporaries the only other one) the body of the great singer has been subjected to a process of embalmment which will preserve the natural contour of his face and figure for, it is alleged, 100 years. At first, when he was put to rest in the Caruso chapel in the Naples Cemetery, his visage was exposed to view, for any strangers to. see. Six months ago, however, the glass top of the casket was replaced by an opaque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mummy | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Friday when he was exactly 37 years old, more than for his frescoes and his figure paintings from mythology, his portraits and historical panoramas, is remembered for being the man who made the best pictures of the Virgin Mary and her son. His portraits of her cool and smiling face have been more often copied than any other painter's; notably the Madonna of the Chair (Pitti Gallery, Florence) and the Sistine Madonna (Dresden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Madonna | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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