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In the field of Geology, Alfred C. Lane, professor at Tufts College and Laurence LaForge, Ph.D., research associate in Mineralogy will each give a course. Professor Lane's course will be "Historical Geology" and will be illustrated by numerous lantern slides. Dr. laForge's course will deal with rocks in...
One of the favorite Hollywood publicity dodges has been the practice of filling pictures with those of famous name, regardless of their acting ability; this genus of fake reaches its ultimate development in "The Prizefighter and the Lady." To begin with, Max Baer is cast in the leading role; then...
Fourth "Corbett" to win a boxing championship,* Raffaele Giordano chose his pseudonym 13 years ago when, a newsboy who learned boxing in street fights, he was matched against a newsboy named Jeffries. James J. Corbett's brother ran a pool room; Raffaele Giordano bought his father a pool room...
Died. James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, onetime (1892-97) world's heavyweight boxing champion; of cancer of the liver; at Bayside. L. I. A clever disdainful boxer, he knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds in New Orleans, after politely contradicting, in a Chicago saloon, Sullivan's...
Boston's Dr. John Jeffries, with Jean-Pierre Francois Blanchard in 1785, was first to cross the English Channel in a balloon. Struggling to keep the bag aloft, they cast out successively sand ballast, wings, ornaments, all scientific apparatus (except the barometer), biscuits, apples, oars, moulinet, anchors, cords, finally...