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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...L. FlTZ-GlBBON General Manager Tex-La Pecan Orchards San Antonio...
...Jury Members were: California's Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn, Missouri's onetime (1911-29) Senator James A Reed; Rt Rev. Monsignor John L. Belford of Brooklyn; Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, onetime (1913-21) White House physician; Rabbi Nathan Krass of Manhattan; Archdeacon Joseph Henry Dodshoti of Ohio, Episcopal clergyman; Pennsylvania's Congressman James Montgomery Beck...
Past-president of the Society is Howard Thurston of Beechurst, L. I., famed professional, near-peer of the late great Harry Houdini. He was succeeded last week by Hardeen, brother of Houdini. Other prominent national members include the following amateurs: Artist Harlan Tarbell of Chicago, Patent Attorney J. C. Wobensmith of Philadelphia, Royal C. Vilas of Bridgeport, Conn. The New York chapter is headed by Lawyer Bernard M. L. Ernst. Its officers include Leo Rullman, acting Deputy Collector of the Port of New York, and Dentist Lionel Hartley...
...Hooker entrusted last week's performance and his secrets to John Mullholland of Manhattan, brilliant sleight-of-handman, lecturer, student of world-wide magical history. Magician Mullholland was invisibly assisted by Dr. Shirley L. Quimby, apparatus expert, professor of physics at Columbia University. Dr. Hooker's guests were led from his dark panelled home through a small grassy courtyard, into a private chemical laboratory. On the second floor was a tiny impromptu "theatre" which seated about 20 people. The walls were lined with books, many of them on magic...
Genetics, the study of life processes, had two good and separate hours in the news last week. At Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., the Carnegie Institution of Washington conducted a genetics display to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its own incorporation and the coeval establishment of its Departments of Genetics. In Manhattan, at the American Museum of Natural History, the Eugenics Research Association (founded 1913) and the American Eugenics Society (founded 1925) jointly conducted a festival exposition on their specialty, the science of development through artificial selection...