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When on May n, 1871, Ferdinand Foch, a young student at the Jesuit College of St. Clement's at Metz, heard the classroom windows rattle to the guns' announcement that the city was now German, the nightmare of the Franco-Prussian War turned into a dream of revanche. He fed the dream with legends of Napoleon; his religious training gave him the very highest sanctions. From the Polytechnique he pushed through the Ecole d'Application, the Cavalry School at Saumur, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. In 1890 he was summoned to the General Staff at the Ministry...
...novelty for Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe to be performing in public. He used to play first viola in the Los Angeles Philharmonic beside his grandfather, a 'cellist, and his uncle who was concertmaster. Grofe's family in-tended him for business so at 14 he ran away, became an elevator operator, then a truckman, a milkman, a heaver in an iron foundry, a pressman in a bookbindery. When he composed a march for an Elks' Reunion in Los Angeles his family relented, let him go in for music...
...nobleman, Count Laszlo Szechenyi. Count Laszlo Szechenyi is no relative of Painter de Laszlo who was humbly born at Budapest in 1869. After a few years in Budapest Industrial Art School, he stopped doing things humbly. At 25 he was summoned from Paris to the summer palace of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to paint the Archbishop Gregorious. His portraits of the Archbishop, the Prince and his wife, gave his work the cachet it needed. Since then he has immortalized almost the entire Almanack de Gotha, visited every royal court except that of China. Like every brilliantly successful court portraitist...
Melvyn Douglas handles his role well and photographs so pleasantly that he is likely to remain in Hollywood for some time. So is Ferdinand Gottschalk, a first-rate character actor, who skips about Gloria Swanson chanting in a strange way when pleased by any turn of events. Tonight or Never is an easygoing, insignificant and funny cinematic escapade...
...simplest of the elements, would be found to have two isotopes. Professor Harold Clayton Urey of Columbia University said last May that he was searching for a hydrogen isotope of weight two. Last week he found it. Co-discoverers were Dr George M. Murphy of Columbia and Dr. Ferdinand G. Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards in Washington. Under low pressure Dr. Brickwedde liquefied hydrogen by reducing the temperature. Then he allowed the temperature to rise.' At 437º below zero F. the liquid began to evaporate. Ordinary hydrogen atoms, being lighter, had risen to the top, evaporated first...