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Chicago's "outer drive" (speedway over reclaimed lake-swamp land from North Side to South Side) will be named for Viking Leif (pronounced Life) Ericsson. Reason: he may have discovered America before Columbus; Columbus is now commonplace as thoroughfare designation; local Norwegians were active...
...elder brother, Edward, launched upon a series, now celebrated, of epochal scenes in U. S. naval history, from Leif Ericsson to Admiral Dewey. Peter etched and painted animals. Thomas stuck to illustrating, doing as high as 250 plates in a single year. Off and on he visited Europe, but in 1871 and 1873 he made the trips that made his name, to the bright-hued rock-gorge country of the Far West with government geologists. It was an ideal locale for a devoted student of Turner and of nature's iridescent color effects. Congress paid him $10,000 apiece...
...that mine will not be the only letter you receive in correction of the awkward blunder in TIME of May 10 [EDUCATION], when you state that H. R. H. the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden comes to America to be present at the unveiling of a monument to Leif Ericsson, the early discoverer of America...
...event. Minister Bliss straightened out his papers and left Stockholm for Washington. The Yale secretary prepared an announcement, because His Royal Highness, Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden and Duke of Skane, is this month coming to the U. S. to attend the unveiling of a monument to Viking Leif Ericsson* at the Capital. Minister Bliss must help President Coolidge entertain. Yale, which has not had a special convocation since Marshal Foch visited it in 1921, † is going to confer upon the Prince, "archeologist, musician, athlete and religious leader," an honorary LL.D...
...Eric the Red; Icelandic chief and settler of Greenland; also called "Leif the Lucky." Blown out of his course while returning from Norway in 1000 A. D. to Christianize Greenland, he reached a far-western land where "self-sown" wheat grew, and vines. He called it Vineland, later exploring it, wintering there-in southern Nova Scotia...