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Around the Skeleton. An interested spectator at the Civil War balloon experiments was a young German officer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After he retired from the Kaiser's army, in 1891, Zeppelin dedicated his life to perfecting giant rigid dirigibles-built around a metal skeleton-that would retain their shape and could be guided. About the same time, a wealthy Brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, developed the nonrigid dirigible and pleased girls by taking them on flights around Paris...
...Bauxite reserves run to hundreds of millions of tons, and are economically close to cheap power sites, but Kaiser and Reynolds development projects were vetoed by strident nationalism ("The aluminum is ours...
...loquacious mood. Karl Henry von Wiegand had been a journalist before his guests were born, and he was eager to spin yarns out of his past. Inevitably, he remembered his 1914 interview with Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany, some three months after the prince's father, Kaiser Wilhelm, had entered World War I: "Willie said to me, 'My dear Wiegand, you must tell Papa that we have lost the war. Every time I attempt to tell him, he gets furious...
...Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist LL.D...
...Assistant Director Stephen Aaron '57" and the theatre at Harvard will be considerably poorer for the loss of a man of Mr. Aaron's acumen and enthusiasm. William Alfred John M. Bullitt Dean Gitter Cedric H. Whitman John Ratte Elliott Perkine John Conway Daniel Seltzer Robert Chapman Walter J. Kaiser...