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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University fellowships to Roger E. V. Anderson, Sarnia, Canada, to Eugene P. Boardman, Ft. Atkinson, Wis., to John L. Chase, Tully, N. Y. to James F. J. Gillen, Madison, Wis, to John A. Hogan, Seattle, Wash, to Wilbur F. Murrs, Cambridge, to Herbert R. Northrup, Irvington, N. J. and to Jospeh Shister, Montreal, Canada...
Last week, however, a U. S. relief expedition was being readied. In a Portland (Me.) berth, the 118-ft. yacht Liberty, under Capt. Kenneth Simpson, ordered provisions for a South Sea voyage. At Panama, Liberty planned to pick up Pitcairn's radio equipment, mail, whatever else it could find room for, hoped to sight the islands by Christmas...
...last the curtain rose on Dali's brand-new setting for the Venusberg Bacchanale scene from Wagner's Tannhäuser they saw what they had come for. At the back of the stage, before a punctured mountain on a windswept plain, an ossified swan spread 15-ft. wings. In and out of its ruptured, bony breast the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's ballerinas climbed like the maggoty stuffing of a decayed Thanksgiving turkey. In the orchestra pit the staid Metropolitan Opera orchestra surged and noodled conventionally through Wagner's foaming music. But the cavorting...
...snow cruiser is an automotive dreadnaught 55 ft. long, designed and built by Chicago's Armour Institute at a cost of $150,000. It has a machine shop and a photographic darkroom, can carry an airplane on its back. Rolling on four retractable, rubber-tired wheels ten feet in diameter, it cruises at 10 m.p.h. (top speed 25 m.p.h.), can straddle and cross crevasses 15 ft. wide...
...Passaic, N. J. During World War I he told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Army uniform specifications reeked, drew up new specifications, still in use, thereby won the Certificate of Distinguished Service from a grateful administration. In 1928 Krupp built him the Orion, then largest yacht afloat (333 ft.), and he began making periodic trips around the world, conducting his business by short-wave radio. His greatest ambition: to have his three living sons and son-in-law, all in his employ, keep up the Forstmann wool dynasty...