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When an institution gives such an affair, it strives to add the savor of some new scientific achievements. Pennsylvania's condiment was the demonstration of a way of seeing living cells grow in the body. Inventor was Eliot Round Clark, 49, professor of anatomy and director of Pennsylvania's anatomical laboratory...
Married. Lee De Forest, 57, electrical inventor (pioneer in radio, sound cinema, television), uncle of Cinemactress Bebe Virginia Daniels; and Marie Mosquini, 41, oldtime comic-film actress, friend of Miss Daniels; secretly, two weeks ago, at Tia Juana, Mexico, a few days before the formalization of his divorce from the second Mrs. De Forest, Singer Mary Mayo of Manhattan...
...Military Academy, lately a cinemactor (The Silent Enemy, TIME, May 26). Another pupil, one for whom the instruction was exceedingly brief (after he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest son of the late great Elmer Ambrose Sperry (TIME, June 23), younger brother of the late famed Pilot Lawrence Sperry who was drowned in the English Channel (TIME, Dec. 24, 1923). The eldest Sperry son, Edward Goodman, is not a pilot...
...stood about a new bronze statue. In the group were famed financiers in custom-made clothes, old workmen whose trousers showed a bag at the knees through the newly acquired press, young mechanics with large browned hands. All of them were there to honor the late great George Westinghouse, inventor, industrialist. Many present had worked with him, had known him as "The Old Man," whose impetuous, unreasoning temper and whose wholehearted consideration were amazing contradictions. The statue, erected by Westinghouse employes and friends, memorialized the genius which, though lately overshadowed by publicity for Thomas Alva Edison...
...very little choice for church window themes. In the Fourth Presbyterian's case the near copying of Princeton's east window had the necessity of sentiment. The Chicago window is "in loving memory of Nettie Fowler McCormick, 1835-1923," wife of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-84), inventor of the reaping machine, and mother of Cyrus Hall and Harold Fowler McCormick, both long ago Princeton graduates...