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...versatility and popularity was the late Fenton Benedict Turck-doctor, scientist, esthete. The variety among his close friends mirrored the variety of his interests-Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree (see p. 45), Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Sculptor Lorado Taft, Entomologist Leland Ossian Howard, Politician Sir Robert Laird Borden, Immunologist Theobald Smith. As doctor he was an internist, with digestive disorders his specialty. Last week, at the behest of Manhattan's August Holland Society, friends of the late Fenton Benedict Turck gathered to honor the posthumous publication of a book by him-Action, of the Living Cell...
...investors, Banker Bullock has assembled an amazing roster of Canadian potency for his directorate. With him on the board will sit President Arthur Blaikie Purvis of Canadian Industries, Ltd., "the du Pont of Canada"; Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, foxy Prime Minister of Quebec since 1920; Sir Robert Laird Borden, Wartime Prime Minister of the Dominion and head of Barclay's Bank of Canada; Norman James Dawes, head of National Breweries, Ltd.; Hon. Charles Avery Dunning, a power in the prairie provinces; Hon. Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne, head of Sherwin-Williams Co. of Canada (paint); Sir Charles Blair Gordon, president...
...tell amateurs how to build gadgets at home. Features of the first issue: more on Life-After-Death by Sir Oliver Lodge; an argument for parachutes for airline passengers by 'Chute-Inventor Floyd Smith; industrial application of intelligence tests, by Colgate University's Professor Donald Anderson Laird; Sunlight v. Windows by General Electric's Physicist Matthew Luckiesh...
Sins In Senatobia, Miss., when Rev. William McCarty, 96, preached an old-style funeral sermon on the sins of the deceased, who he predicted was on his way to Hell, Mrs. Levy Laird, a relative of the deceased, tore off most of Mr. McCarty's clothes, smashed his hat, scratched...
...Leeds Trophy race for sportsmen pilots, Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's famed White Horse Tavern, whipped his Laird in to win. Of five entrants in the strictly amateur derby for the Lawrence trophy, only C. M. Taylor of Little Rock, Ark. crossed the finish line...