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...when he was not boxing, wrestling, carousing. A roistering Rabelaisian to the last, he spat sulphuric scorn at highbrow art dealers, highbrow criticism, highbrow notions of technique, all living foreign artists and most dead ones except Rembrandt, Renoir and Franz Hals. Typical comment : "Da Vinci is the bunk - a mathematician, a subway digger." Died. Conrad E. Biehl, 67, Colorado's "glass eye king"; by his own hand (carbon monoxide gas) ; in Pueblo, Col. His world-wide glass eye clientele included a Zulu chieftain. Died. Paul Painleve, 69, thrice Premier of France, ten times Cabinet Min ister, once president...
Princeton University opened its 187th year with a new president, Dr. Harold Willis Dodds. English Professor Robert Kilburn Root is dean of the faculty succeeding Mathematician Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, now dean of the Graduate School. Princeton men noted three new buildings rising not far from their chapel. Anonymously donated, they will house the famed Westminister Choir School, founded seven years ago by Dr. John Finley Williamson and largely supported by Mrs. Harold Ellstner Talbott of Dayton, Ohio...
Last week all the Princeton deans resigned, as is customary with a change of presidents. All were reappointed, one moved up. Faculty Dean Eisenhart, able mathematician, becomes dean of the Graduate School to succeed Dr. Augustus Trowbridge who resigned because of ill health. Successor as dean of the faculty is urbane, witty Robert Kilburn Root, English department chairman...
Under an agreement made with Chicago World's Fair officials, Al Simmons, Jimmy Dykes. "Red" Kress consented to try for a world's catching championship by catching baseballs thrown to them from the top of a 625-foot Sky Ride tower (see p. 14). When a mathematician found that the balls would be traveling 136.80 miles an hour, would strike with an impact of 6,604 foot pounds, White Sox Owner Louis A. Comiskey refused to risk his players...
Died, R. E. A. C. Paley,* 25, called by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was researching, "the greatest mathematician in England and one of the greatest in the world"; when an avalanche started by his skis, swept him down Fossil Mountain near Banff, Alberta...