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John E. Mellish, 46, is a person of importance to U. S. astronomy. He is a grinder of telescope lenses, which he, with infinite pains and patience, can polish to within one one-millionth of an inch of perfection. Last week, and every weekday for the past nine months-hour after hour-he has worked under the surveillance of the Kane County, Ill. sheriff...
Jessie Wood chose Lens-Grinder Mellish from among scores of applicants. She subsequently bore eleven children, nine living. Astronomer Edwin Brant Frost and Mrs. Frost were Mrs. Mellish's first accoucheurs when her time came at the Yerkes Observatory at Williams...
...plenitude of supplies, and yet want involving more families than have ever gone hungry in the history of this country." The Daily News said it would buy some of this wheat, give it to needy folk endorsed by the Dayton Family Welfare Association. If the family had a coffee grinder it could make whole wheat muffins, cakes .or breads, or else soak the wheat for 48 hours and make porridge. The Daily News hoped: "If this method can be demonstrated, then it may spread all over the country...
...conventional melodrama with plot complications which would have been too numerous had they not been bunched on an ocean liner. Among the passengers on the S.S. Transatlantic are: a banker (John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta Nissen); an aged lens-grinder (Jean Hersholt), using all his savings on a holiday for himself and daughter (Lois Moran); a gang of international rogues; and another rogue (Edmund Lowe) who combines the faculties of Robin Hood, Don Quixote and deus ex machina. He forms a liking for the banker's wife, causes her husband...
Presently the shipboard newsheet reveals to the lens-grinder that his savings are lost in the failure whose consequences the banker is trying to escape. When the banker is shot in his cabin, the bearded lens-grinder goes to the brig. Robin Hood gets him out, not without severe inconvenience to himself. These and subsidiary developments, neatly compacted, gain force from high-paced direction, employment of frequent opportunities for smart photography. Good shots: a gunfight along the seamy rails and ladders of the engine room; a corridor sign flashing "SILENCE" outside the room in which the banker has been shot...