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...knighthood in the French Legion of Honor; General Douglas MacArthur, the Grand Cross of the Rumanian Order of the Star; Arturo Toscanini and Campbell Bascom Slemp, the commander's cravat of the French Legion of Honor; Professor Auguste Piccard, knighthood in the Belgian Order of Leopold; Poet Maurice Maeterlinck, grand officer in the Legion of Honor...
Conferred. On Maurice Maeterlinck, 70, author (The Life of the Bee, The Blue Bird); the title of Count: by Albert, King of the Belgians; in Brussels...
...motors by tinkering a second-hand motorcycle. When he inherited £250,000 and a seat on Lloyd's (where his life and car are insured for a total of £20,000), he continued to experiment. In 1909 he built an airplane. In 1910 he went to see Maeterlinck's Blue Bird and was so much impressed that he gave the play's name to a 60-h.p. Darracque in which, next day, he won two races. In 1912 he had the narrowest escape of his life when a tire blew out at 100 m.p.h. Blue Bird broke...
Myrmecology sets Mystic Maeterlinck musing; he thinks the ant may be an example, not only to the sluggard, but to the whole race. "One day we shall learn, as all the creatures that share this earth with us have already learned, to content ourselves with life . . . and we shall find, perhaps, when we know how to live it, that life is enough. ... I believe that the ant is far less unhappy than the very happiest...
...Author. Maurice Maeterlinck, 68, Belgian mystic, playwright, scientist, does not live in Belgium because he says Belgium does not approve of artists. In his villa near Nice he lives with his young second wife (he divorced Georgette LeBlanc in 1919). Other books: The Life of the Bee, The Blue Bird, Pellcas et Melisande...