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...vegetables and fruits the farm needs. They tend horses, cows, pigs and poultry, operate a slaughter house and a cannery, make uniforms to wear at the farm, clothes to wear when they go home. Last week, with the help of 447 prisoners transferred from the flooded reformatory at Frankfort, Lexington's convict-patients were enlarging their athletic field for baseball and horseshoe pitching. They have a gymnasium, a bowling alley, a band. Dr. Kolb expects to develop a concert series soon. In the Lexington farm's library, magazines and newspapers are uncensored. Patients eat from chinaware, .instead...
Hooked to a national circuit, WHAS was busy day and night directing local relief workers for miles up and down the river. Frankfort, where 1.500 families took to the hills when the Kentucky river flooded the State capital, was reported to be the scene of the catastrophe's most brutal and piteous event. As the water rose in the Frankfort Reformatory. 2,900 panic-stricken prisoners began fighting...
...proud to have engaged for the forthcoming season such guest artists as Violinist Adolf Busch and Cellist Pablo Casals. After Toscanini takes the orchestra to Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Alexandria this season, Issay Dobrowen, former conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, Hans Wilhelm Steinberg, onetime director of the Frankfort Opera, and Michael Taube, former leader of famed German ensembles, will replace him on Jewry's proudest podium...
Iraq. "Cyclops" means "Round-Eye." The Cyclops of Greek myth was a giant with a single monstrous eye centred in his forehead, who sank ships by throwing boulders at them. Heading another Oriental Institute expedition to Tell Osmar, Dr. Henri Frankfort found evidence that Cyclops was not a Greek invention. On a Babylonian site at least a millennium older than Homer, the diggers discovered a relief carving showing a god with bow & arrow stabbing a Cyclops in the belly with a broad-bladed knife. Rays emanating from Cyclops' head indicate that he was a demon of light or fire...
Willy Harinet, Lecturer at Frankfort University, Germany, whose field is the history of natural sciences, especially astronomy among the peoples of the Orient, the Near East, and Central America, will again be lecturer on the History of Science. Dr. Harinet is included in the faculty members giving courses in the new doctorate field "History of Science and Learning Infliated last year by President James B. Conant...