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Favorite was blond Bernd Rosemeyer of Germany who last year won seven out of eight Grand Prix races in Europe, easily outclassed Italy's Tazio Nuvolari, the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup winner. Rosemeyer got away fast at the start this week, temporarily yielded his lead to his countryman Rudolf Caracciola until the tenth lap. Noisiest and swiftest (160 m.p.h.) on the straightaways, Rosemeyer roared up a lead of two-thirds of a lap before the race was one-third run. Headed only when he dropped out for tire changes on the 79th lap, Rosemeyer soon caught young Dick Seaman...
ADRIANA VAN COEVERING Grand Haven, Mich...
Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was for 22 years editor of the Grand Rapids Herald before the people of Michigan elected him to the U. S. Senate. In politics his nose for news still serves him well. Fore. seeing an inevitable effort to amend...
Elitch's Gardens is the great-grand-father of all U. S. summer stock corn-panies. In 1890 a sentimental showman named John Elitch established in a grove of big cottonwoods outside Denver a combination zoo, amusement park and botanical garden. Main attraction was a theatre where vaudeville was performed. Julia Marlowe, Nat Goodwin and Phineas T. Barnum were on hand to open Elitch's Gardens, and Eugene Field was there to report it for the Denver Republican. The place has been a repository of big names ever since. After John Elitch's death...
Under "Scientific Advisory Board," the masthead of Evolution's new issue is adorned with such distinguished names as Anton Julius Carlson ("Grand old man" of physiology at the University of Chicago) and William King Gregory (paleontologist of Columbia University and Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History). Since the last issue in 1932 three valued advisers died: Dr. Elihu Thomson, patriarch of General Electric Co.; Dr. Martin Dewey, onetime president of the American Dental Association, and President Maynard Shipley of the Science League of America. But Editor Katterfeld was happy to announce the acquisition of a new bigwig...