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...Craig, still young, is now the head of the physics department of Mercer University, Macon, Ga. He is rich, for he recently sold an invention he made while working on his doctor's thesis for $100,000. The invention is a device to take the place of battories and vacuum tubes on the ordinary radio receiving sets...
...TIME, Jan. 10, you. . . slur at old Joe Ransdell's whiskers. And why pick on poor little old Toombs County, Ga., when you have the whole state of Illinois right next door. Clean up your own front yard before digging in the ash can in our back yard. Get the beam out of your...
William T. ("Big Bill") Tilden II, onetime (1920-25) world tennis champion: "Suzanne Lenglen, 'Pavlova of tennis', barnstorming the South in Promoter C. C. Pyle's professional tennis troupe, last week said to Atlanta, Ga. newsgatherers: Tilden has passed the peak. From now on I think his game will go down rather than up. . . He is a wonderful player . . . but the fire is dying down...
...quantity, given away at street corners and in the arcades of office buildings. Has the Supreme Kingdom had these pamphlets printed at its own printshop (whence issues Dynamite, the Kingdom's official organ) and had them circulated as if they came from an atheist society? So declared the Macon, (Ga.,) Telegraph. Further, the Telegraph hardily asserted that the Supreme Kingdom was "shot through with the grossest commer-cialism." It stated that Dr. Straton was to receive $30,000 for 60 sermons. Interviewed, the Rev. Mr. Straton denied that his new office would interfere with his work as pastor...
...chapel announcements at Mercer University (Macon, Ga.) were more interesting than usual one morning last week. They included the romantic story of a hardworking young professor suddenly grown rich. He was Palmer H. Craig, 29, head of the Mercer physics department, a doctor of philosophy only these seven months. While working up his doctor's thesis at the University of Cincinnati he had made an invention. Now the Westinghouse Electric Co. had offered him $100,000. The invention, simplicity itself, was designed to replace the batteries and vacuum tubes of the ordinary radio receiving set. It consisted...