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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen beats Margaret by a neck as the most popular girl at the Junior Prom on tomorrow evening. Tabulations of the 128 different girls names which the members of 1926 have chosen as befitting the greatest dance of the year, give Helen 22 votes to 21 for Margaret. Dorothy won third place in the poll where the Juniors unwittingly voted with 16 choices...
Thereafter, the picture jumps to its task, reveals itself as one of the greatest of the camera spectacles. Carcassonne was borrowed by the Government to show the seige of the medieval town. If you look in your histories, you will find the tale?how Jean Hachette, Jeanne d'Arc of the days of Louis XI, saved the seige of Beauvais. Mingled in the yarn is a startling wolf attack. All the players were French, many of them borrowed from the Odeon and Comedie. Some of the technique was borrowed from the U. S. The wolves were borrowed from Russia. From...
...trip was not an unqualified success. But there are still undeveloped possibilities in the rotor principle ("TIME, Dec. 8). The greatest propelling force is obtained when the circumferential speed of the revolving towers is about 3½ times as great as the speed of the wind. The Buckau, whose revolving towers are about ten feet in diameter with a possible speed of 150 revolutions per minute can, therefore, function most efficiently in winds up to 15 miles an hour. By building rotor-ships with towers of greater diameter and greater speed of revolution, it should be possible to "sail" efficiently...
From Atlanta came a statement of Colonel Hollins Randolph, President of the Memorial Association. Said he: "For more than a year the greatest problem of the Stone Mountain Memorial has been the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum. . . . He loafed on the job. . . . It has been extremely difficult to get him to do any work at all on the mountain, notwithstanding the large amounts of money paid him. His main desire seems to be to get his name in the newspapers as often as possible...
...death removes him from the ranks of possible contestants in the June election. He died at the height of his career, holding the greatest office in the gift of the German people. The past has been difficult. The future is dubious: such a leader will be missed...