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...Interested primarily in the aesthetic side of life," Scientist Albert Abraham Michelson, of the University of Chicago, last week held an exhibition of his paintings in Chicago. With his own hands Dr. Michelson adjusted against the wall 18 watercolors, twelve portraits in pen and ink. Said he, "Of all the oil portraits I made, I have destroyed every canvas...
...learned world knew versatile Dr. Michelson as the first man who ever computed the size of a star, as winner of the Nobel Prize in physics (1907), as the man who fixed the standard length of a metre bar in terms of the wave length of cadmiun light. It was he who helped devise the Michelson-Morley experiment in interference of light, with bearing on the Einstein theory. But the learned world did not know him as a former naval officer, nor as an excellent violinist, nor as a keen tennis player, nor as an amateur of literature and drama...
...Popular Citizens" William Ackerman (Meridian, Miss.), Ralph Jonas (Brooklyn, N. Y.), Lucius N. Littauer (Gloversville, N. Y.) ; Public Officials Esther Andrews (Brookline, Mass.), William Freidman (Dade City, Fla.), Leon Schwartz (Mobile, Ala.), Alvin A. Wolff (St. Louis); Scientists A. A. Michelson, Leon S. Moissieff, Paul Radin; Theater Men Gustav Blum, Jed Harris, George S. Kaufman, Al Lewis, Samson Raphaelson, Muni Wisenfrend; Women Welfare Workers Mrs. Sidney C. Borg (New York), Amelia Greenwald (Meridian, Miss.), Mrs. Joseph Leblang (New York), Sophie Irene Loeb (New York), Mrs. Leopold Plaut (New York), Mrs. William D Sporborg (Port Chester, N. Y.), Lillian D. Wald...
Married. Dorothy Michelson, 21, daughter of Albert Abraham Michelson, famed scientist (University of Chicago); to Sheldon Dick, son of Albert Blake Dick, president A. B. Dick Co., Chicago, manufacturers of labor-saving devices; suddenly, in Manhattan...
Engaged. Miss Dorothy Michelson, daughter of Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, famed Chicago scientist to Sheldon Dick, son of Albert Blake Dick, president of A. B. Dick Co. of Chicago, manufacturers of labor saving devices...