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...need them. With the Mauser he was able To kill: Alexander of Jugoslavia Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of France Yolande Farris Mme Marie Dubrec To wound: General Alfonse Joseph Georges of France General Alexander Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia Admiral Philippe Berthelot Police Inspector Calestin Galli Policeman Felix Forestier Marius Humbert Laurent Tortero Mme Justine de Mawer and her son Felix Edmond Brooks Dascomb, U. S. newsreel photographer, made a complete record of the assassination while bullets whistled round his ears. Four days later he dropped dead from a cerebral hemorrhage. Petrus Kalemen was not alone in his plot. Acting on secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUGOSLAVIA: Little King | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...members are: Alphonse Onnou, Laurent Halleux, Germain Prevost and Robert Maas. They will be assisted by Miss Olga Averino, soprano. The programs are as follows: Monday Quartet F major Op. 135 Beethoven Quartet No. 5, D minor Chadwick Quartet C minor, Op. 51 No. 1 Brahms Wednesday Quartet D major Franck Quartet Carpenter Quartet G minor Op. 10 Debussy Friday Quartet No 2 F sharp minor Schonberg Three Variations on a Theme C minor Harris Quartet No. 3, Op. 22 Hindemith

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST CONCERT MONDAY BY BRUSSELS QUARTET | 11/1/1933 | See Source »

...discovered this as they did most other facts known about this keystone of their hermetic arts. One compound of mercury (calomel, mercurous chloride) is a useful purge. Another compound (mercuric bichloride) is a corrosive poison (TIME, March 7). Quicksilver helped Joseph Priestley discover oxygen (1/74) and thus start Antoine Laurent Lavoisier on modern chemistry. It dissolves most metals (iron and platinum are among the few exceptions). Besides its familiar uses- gold and silver amalgams to fill teeth; filling for thermometers and ultraviolet ray lamps-it goes into explosives and drugs. Recently it has been used to run electro-turbines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quicksilver Rush | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...Clifton, who received a master's degree in music from Harvard, the Boston musicians will render Handel's "Concerto Grosso for a String Orchestra in F Major" as the first number. This will be followed by Griffes "Poem for Flute and Orchestra", a new work, for which Georges Laurent, a regular member of the orchestra, will carry the solo parts. Next on the program will be "Daybreak" and Siegfried's "Rhine Journey," excerpts from Wagner's famous opera "Die Gotterdammenung," Sibelius' "Symphony No. 2 in 11 Major," one of the best known of the Finnish composer's symphonic pieces will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ALUMNUS WILL LEAD BOSTON SYMPHONY | 1/14/1932 | See Source »

...handsome Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-94) "Father of Modern Chemistry," married a 14-year-old girl. She learned Latin so that he would not be ashamed of her, taught herself English to translate his articles. Gentle, smiling Mrs. James Watt, first wife and cousin of the steam engine's inventor (1736-1819) had continually to encourage her husband to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: He Is Worth It | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

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