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...Emerson, who runs a small shop near Harvard Square with Maxfield Parrish Jr. (son of the artist) and David Garrison as associates, counter-claimed that Mr. Drinker, assistant professor of ventilation & illumination in Harvard's School of Public Health, appropriated certain Emerson inventions for the famed Drinker respirator. Indignant Mr. Emerson has roused a faction of Harvard's Medical School to similar indignation, over the fact that Mr. Drinker drew fat royalties ($300 alleged) on every Drinker respirator sold by Warren E. Collins Inc. Builder Emerson claims that $1,500 for a Drinker machine is "robbery," sells...
...against Alfred E. Smith in the gubernatorial primary and was so impressed by his defeat that he became one of Governor Smith's stanchest supporters. He was a friend of Woodrow Wilson, is a friend of Franklin Roosevelt, organized the aggressive Democratic Union. In Garrison, N. Y. he has a country place where he sometimes plows with two oxen. In Manhattan, where he owns a house in the East Thirties, he steers clear of Tammany Hall. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (hobby, art collecting) and of Princeton University (religion, Presbyterian). His tall, thin figure...
...modern France some garrison commanders punish with two days in "clink" a poilu found playing with a Yo-Yo, consider it a menace to discipline. Modern Yo-Yoing was launched in London by Baron Beaverbrook's Conservative Evening Standard which coached its readers in endless Yo-Yo tricks: "loops." "break-ways," "skinning the cat," "three-leaf clovers" and "Bow Bells." Most dangerous Yo-Yo maneuver is "around the world," in which the spinning top gyrates about its thrower's head in a circle which alternately widens and contracts...
...Peiping bland Japanese Charge d'Affaires S. Nakayama was asked flatly why Japan seized Shanhaikwan. "This deplorable frontier clash," said he in English, "arose from the long-pent desire of our Japanese frontier garrison to see active service and to 'spank,' if I may so express myself, the Chinese troops whom they had monotonously faced for 16 months...
Retired. Oswald Garrison Villard, as editor of The Nation (but he will contribute a weekly signed page "Issues & Men"); George McClelland Reynolds, as board chairman of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust...