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There was a young lady from Lyme...
...first-rate group of 19th-and 20th-century U.S. pictures, the collection included : Winslow Homer's Sunflower Pickaninny, Sargent's portrait of Joe Jefferson as Rip van Winkle, Whistler's Red Rosalie of Lyme Regis, George Luks's Plaza Cabbie, George Bellows' Sea Spume, canvases by John Sloane, Marsden Hartley, John Marin...
Died. Dr. Frank Schlesinger, 72, famed astronomer, pioneer in the measurement of heavenly distances by photography; in Lyme, Conn. Some 40 years ago, he developed precise measurement methods (on photographic plates made with long-focus telescopes) which became standard practice. He was director of Yale's observatory for 21 years, there built the 26-in.-lens telescope which was later set up in Johannesburg...
...years ago Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, retired Wall Street "wizard of the electrical industry," bought a cemetery plot, picked out a tombstone, lived on. Last week, at 80, he married Mrs. George Palmer, 62, of Old Lyme, Conn...
...wounded and won his D.S.O. Like the first Josiah, who got himself well hated for championing the cause of the upstart American colonies, Colonel "Josh" is a fighting progressive. For 35 years (first as Liberal, then as Laborite) he has been a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme...