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Learning last week got around to honoring Dr. George Oliver Curme Jr., one of U. S. chemistry's great experts, by giving him the Chandler Medal and a salute at Columbia University. Industry long ago crowned him with Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., created expressly by Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. to exploit his discoveries and processes. The industrialists, further, made him vice president, chief chemist and director of research of the chemicals subsidiary...
University wrestling championships were concluded yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building as E. C. Ihrig 1L, a former captain and star of the Princeton grappling team, carried off the honors by clinching the 135-pound bout in one minute and 31 seconds, thereby winning his second medal this season in a University tournament...
...Rome from any part of the kingdom. Last week Il Duce let the world know that his honeymoon rates have drawn 14.000 newly weds to Rome- 2,000 couples per month. Most of them call at the Vatican where each bride is given a rosary, each groom a medal...
Painter Hayden, war veteran and former mail carrier, was earning his living as a window washer and scrubman on Park Avenue when he won his first art prize, $400 and a gold medal, in 1926. His employer added $3,000 and sent him abroad to study. Painter Hayden managed to make the $3,400 last him five years in France, was finally sent home penniless by the American Legion last autumn. The Harmon Foundation now gives him an occasional meal, provides him with canvas and paints. His winning composition shows an African head beside a heaping vase of spotted Argus...
...Behn, president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, by Pope Pius; to Psychiatrist Earl Danford Bond,.Philadelphia's $10,000 Bok prize for city service; to James Orr Elton, Anaconda Copper Mining Co. metallurgist, the 1933 James Douglas Medal, for improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet fever germ...