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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indiana & Conservation: ". . . George Rogers Clark did battle against the tomahawk and the rifle. He saved for us the fair land that lay between the mountains and the Father of Waters. His task is not done. Though we fight with weapons unknown to him, it is still our duty to continue the saving of this fair land...
...Wrote Michelangelo: "I am immensely better. For about two months I have been drinking morning and evening water from a spring about forty miles from Rome, which breaks the stone. It has broken mine and enabled me to pass a good deal of it in my urine. I must lay in a store of it and use it exclusively in drinking and cooking and change my way of living.'' After taking the cure at Fiuggi, the Viceroy of Ethiopia was slated to return to take up residence at Addis Ababa...
Accepting a medal inscribed "Dick Byrd, Gallant Gentleman" from Colonel Henry Breckinridge, Rear Admiral Rich ard Evelyn Byrd told 600 banqueters in Manhattan his future plans. Recalling the six months when he "lay on the edge of life" alone in Antarctic Advance Base, the greying explorer read from the diary he kept there: " 'From here the great folly of all follies is the amazing attitude of civilized nations toward each other. . . . If this attitude is not changed, I don't see how our civilization, as we know it, will survive. ... I feel this so keenly that...
...Chicago's Passavant Memorial Hospital last week lay Philip Danforth Armour IV, great-grandson of the packing house founder, with a light attack of infantile paralysis. A few miles away lay lightly stricken his distant cousin, Charles Armour, in his own Lake Forest home. Both contracted the disease presumably at St. Mark's, whence their parents snatched them last month at first word of epidemic. To a hospital room next to their son went Philip Danforth Armour III and his wife Gwendolin. Said the mother: "It is worth the risk to stay near him." Fourteen years ago Philip...
Some publicity stunts that Pressagent Fellows tells about: sending an elephant to lay a wreath on a dead elephant's monument; staging the real wedding of a clown in Madison Square Garden; putting up a gorilla at Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel. One stunt he denies any connection with was plumping the midget (Lia Graf) on J. P. Morgan's knee. Of circus freaks in general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating...