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Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, famed University of Chicago scientist (light speed), was last week discovered playing a tune he had "written several years ago for a child." The composition, "Grandpa's Lullaby," has a lively air, no words...
...Payne Whitney's Henning Michelson...
When last year the Democratic National Committee dipped into the corps of Washington correspondents, of all journalists the most politically wise, and plucked out Charles Michelson of the New York World as its press agent, the Republican National Committee felt badly scooped. This feeling was increased when, during the summer, Press Agent Michelson earned more than his pay by masterfully effective broadsides against the Republican Tariff Bill...
Birthday. Albert Abraham Michelson, measurer of light, first U. S. Nobel Prizeman in science (physics, 1907), whose optical studies gave Albert Einstein a main clue to the Relativity Theory.* Age 77. He marked the week by resigning as head of the physics department at the University of Chicago because of ill health. Next spring at Pasadena, Calif., Professor Michelson, now convalescing from an operation, will peer through a very straight corrugated iron pipe, from which air will have been evacuated, to determine more accurately than heretofore the speed of light...
...CHALLENGE OF CHRONIC DISEASES-Ernst P. Boas & Nicholas Michelson-Macmillan ($2.50). †U. S. almshouses contain 85,000 inmates, three-fourths of whom need constant medical attention, get little...