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Died. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 72, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge; Charles Augustus Lindbergh, King Prajadhipok of Siam, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Booth Tarkington; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. In 1925 grateful friends and patients opened in his honor the $4,000,000 Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, best equipped and most renowned institution of its kind...
...Poor Vincent" Van Gogh, who died an apparent failure in 1890, and whose paintings remained obscure for more than 30 years, is now sweeping away the barriers of New England conservatism with an exhibition of his modernistic work lent by the Kroeller-Mueller Foundation of Holland to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
...sinister but fascinating mental healer, Osgood Perkins has never had better lines to wrap his tongue about. He begins with the observation that "Maine is a masculine Riviera." He progresses to Bismarck's solution of the Irish question, to wit: send the Irish to Holland, the Dutch to Ireland. The Dutch would soon make Ireland a garden. The Irish would soon forget to mend the dikes. Finally he reaches the heart of his cynically expedient philosophy by recalling that he started out as an eye-ear-nose-&-throat man, but soon shifted to psychiatry because "the poor have tonsils...
...pitch and constant speed propellers ("gear shift of the air"). Arthur Cutts Willard, 58, president of the University of Illinois; the F. Paul Anderson Gold Medal of the American Society of Heating & Ventilating Engineers : for work as an engineer, teacher, author and consultant on the ventilating systems of the Holland Tunnel, the U. S. Capitol, the proposed Chicago subway. Charles Franklin Kettering, 59, vice president and research director of General Motors Corp. ; the Washington Award for engineering (bronze plaque on marble base) : for "contributions to the increase of personal mobility" and eloquent advocacy of the cause of research. Roger Adams...
...American journey" across the U. S., an attack on optimistic illusions. Title: satiric. STONEWALL JACKSON- G. F. R. Henderson, C. B. - Longmans, Green ($5). Reprint of the famed standard biography long used as a text in the British War College and at West Point. MAN AND THE SEA. - J. Holland Rose- Houghton Mifflin ($3). Story of the great sea-explorers, famed and obscure, profusely illustrated with old maps and cuts, by a British naval historian...