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Died. Colonel James William Zevely, 65, famed attorney, at his home in East Hampton, L. I., of pernicious anemia. Despite his great abilities as a lawyer, he was perhaps best known to the U. S. public as "the man after whom Harry F. Sinclair named the famous racehorse...
...mentioned that he was trying to buy control of the Virginian Railway for $80,000,000. This is the 545-mile road that Col. Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil built to tap the soft coal deposits at Deepwater, W. Va. It runs parallel with the C. & O. to Hampton Roads, Va. Last year the Pennsylvania, through its subsidiary, the Norfolk & Western, sought to lease the Virginian for 999 years. But the I. C. C. said no. The C. & O. may have better arguments to present before...
...flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline to cross the Atlantic, their plane roared along the ground at Langley Field, near Hampton, Va. Gradually, almost painfully, it rose to a height of some 50 feet. A row of trees, planted years ago by an industrious pioneer, now rose up to thwart these air pioneers. Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane...
Chesapeake Bay lay flat and balmy, but corners of the sky looked ugly. Two Navy seaplanes, flying so high they looked like a pair of mating canvas backs, hummed over the reedy bays, bound for Hampton Roads from Philadelphia. Off New Point Comfort they slanted down. The sky was scowling, muttering. Angry lightnings flickered. The Bay began to hiss and crackle under a heavy downpour. The thunder raised its shouts to a cannonade...
...possible, still lives at Rochester, N. Y., busy industrial city at the falls of the Genesee River. At 72, he has given away more than $58,000,000 -to the University of Rochester including its medical school and its Eastman School of Music; to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes. He has also financed scientific expeditions (Time, March 22, 1926), research in electrolytic deposition of colloidal rubber (TIME, Nov. 8). At present his research staff is working with U. S. surgeons on the tinted, chromatic motion photography of difficult surgical operations...