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...Fairfield, Conn. John Vargo, who had sworn off tobacco for 38 years, accepted a cigaret from a friend, smoked it while he drove home. The smoke got in his eyes. He lost control of the automobile, ran off the road, was taken to the hospital with three broken ribs, a bruised head...
...American Museum of Natural History has long wanted a planetarium to show visitors how the planets revolve about the Sun, how the Sun moves among the other stars. The problem of getting money for the planetarium stumped Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn while he was president of the museum. By last week his successor Frederick Trubee Davison, son and brother of bankers, had invented an ingenious means: a quasi-public corporation called the Planetarium Authority, similar to the popular and profitable Port of New York Authority which builds toll tunnels, toll bridges and other self-liquidating port improvements. Such Authorities...
...duplicate Senator WTalsh as an Attorney General. Nor did Mr. Roosevelt at first try. He appointed Connecticut's Homer Stille Cummings, 62, only as a stopgap, to have a full Cabinet slate at the inaugural. A Yaleman (1891), Mr. Cummings began his legal career in populous, wealthy Fairfield County, served three terms as Mayor of Stamford, today lives in Greenwich. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), broad-shouldered, partly bald, he first came into national view as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1919-20). Since then he has made unsuccessful attempts to get into the House and Senate from...
Most marvelous results of the ten years digging were dinosaur eggs, baluchitheria, and rats which lived with dinosaurs. In 1900 Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, paleontologist, predicted the finding of great fossil beds in Central Asia. That region, argued Dr. Osborn, was the dispersal point for many species of animals. Man too must have originated there. Dr. Andrews found places among the Gobi dunes where groups of humans once lived. But he could find no traces of very ancient human bones, nor of protohuman fossils. Simple Chinese use fossil bones, which they call dragon bones, for medicine. Way to test...
...Princeton University (religion, Presbyterian). His tall, thin figure draped in a loosely cut suit has been seen on many a public platform, from which he has issued dignified appeals for charity from behind a mustache which is less voluminous than it once was. His brother is famed Naturalist Henry Fairfield Osborn; his wife was Alice Dodge, which accounts for his directorate in Phelps Dodge Corp...