Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtually useless. In its researches the Commission (which does no actual abating but carries on investigations of noise) uses the "decibel," which measures differences between sounds and absolute silence. One decibel represents a sound just audible. Ten decibels make one "bel" (named for the late Inventor Alexander Graham Bell), which represents roughly the amount of sound lost when transmitted over one mile of telephone wire. For convenience the decibel and not the bel is used in U. S. researches. A quiet home registers 40 decibels. Normal loudness of human conversation is 60. Upward, toward 100, noise becomes increasingly plaguy...
...Quiet Graham Bethune Grosvenor was president of wide-flung Aviation Corp. for two years when he was succeeded by hardbitten Frederic Gallup Coburn. President Coburn had served approximately two years last week when suddenly he relinquished the executive office on the 47th floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building to a broad-framed young man with a grin and a pipe. It was not surprising that the name of the president-elect, La Motte Turck Cohu, should be better known in Wall Street than in airway operations. Avco, which has yet to show black ink on a profit & loss statement...
Last week the year's list of 57 Guggenheim Fellowships, 20 less than last year's, was made public. Fifteen of the winners will visit the U. S. from Latin America. Among U. S. names: Authors Lewis Mumford, Evelyn Scott, Louis Adamic. Caroline Gordon Tate; Dancer Martha Graham; Painters Andrew Michael Dasburg. Ernest Fiene, Peter Blume; Sculptor Antonio Salamme; Critic Isaac Goldberg; Composer George Antheil; Moscow Correspondent William Henry Chamberlain of the Christian Science Monitor...
...Long Now", a two act musical comedy, written by Roland Maycock '33, was presented last night at the Pi Eta Club. Music was composed by Graham MacLeod '34, and lyrics written by Sturtevant Burr...
Widow MacDougall is now 65, grey, pretty. She is still short, plump, neat and clean. Though frugal (waitresses in her Grand Central restaurant pay $10 a week for their jobs), she lives on swank Park Avenue. Her daughter Gladys married Harry Montrose Graham two years ago. Son Allan, 37, has had complete charge of the coffee business for several years (he put it in cans), is the financial brains of the organization. He is smallish, neat, curly-mustached, rides to hounds with the Spring Valley Harriers near his home at Convent, N. J. But Mrs. MacDougall is still the decorative...