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...lives of scientific investigators are too numerous and too well-known to need citation. The names of Trudeau, Bergoine, Becquerel, Muller, Macfayden, and hosts of this who have died in the service of humanity are too deeply engraved in the medical and scientific history of the world to fade with the passage of time. There is an impersonal heroism in such quiet sacrifice that endures while other more briefly startling varieties sink gently into oblivion...
Beauty vanishes, beauty passes. Marble blackens in the earth; songs fade out of the minds of men; wind and damp loosen paint from canvas. Were this not so, there would be no poets, nor would there have been a panic in Milan 16 years ago. Cause of that panic was the fact that a certain Prof. Cavenaghi had discovered that Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Last Supper was crumbling away. The immortal paint was drying from the canvas. Cavenaghi restored it. Recently another Professor, one Silvestri, noticed while dusting the picture that many parts untouched by Cavenaghi were...
...Final Fade-Out Happy as Usual...
...season for serious discussion of issues, but a time when candidates are "sold" to the electorate by the best of advertising methods, News columns reflect as much as advertising pages the desire of vote seekers to hold the public attention by a massive emphasis on slogans and names. Issues fade, personalities are focussed. The same blaring methods that drag money from the pocket of the reader of advertisements tend to be equally successful in drawing his votes. Reiteration, not seasoning, wins...
When can remembrance fade...