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Doctor Theobald Smith, one of the country's great pathologists and bacteriologists, last week ate a dinner in his own monument: a house overlooking Princeton University campus and Carnegie Lake. Professor Smith lived in the house with his family during the 15 years (1915-29) he was director of the Rockefeller Institute's department of animal pathology. He has retired now and remains in the neighborhood only as consultant. The Rockefeller Institute providently remodeled the house for use of its entire animal pathology staff and last week's dinner signified the transformation of home to monument...
...such an unblushing tearjerker, he laid on pathos with a steam-shovel. Big, ugly, shambling Beery did likewise and little Cooper, whose salary for such undertakings is $1,500 a week, gave a thoroughgoing performance in the same key. Utterly false and thoroughly convincing, The Champ is a monument to the cinema's skill in achieving second-rate perfection. Good shots: Beery dressing when he has a horrible hangover; Cooper listening while his nice little half-sister tells him a fairy story about a Princess who slept for 1,000 years...
...planned and laid out Central Park in New York, a project which led to the establishment of numerous others all over the country. More interesting than this, though, is the story of the Roeblings, father and son, and their long struggle to erect the Brooklyn Bridge, the one great monument of the Brown Decades...
Thomas Alva Edison died last week. His practical intelligence was a monument in his century. Thousands of obituaries were published. Some facts about Thomas Alva Edison...
...rivers, an adviser on construction of the Panama Canal, a winner of the John Fritz and Elliott Cresson medals for engineering achievement. Several years after Engineer Noble died, five great U. S. engineering societies-jointly honored his memory. They sought $100,000, collected $20,000-insufficient for an imposing monument, yet enough to provide a $500 prize for any of their members not over 30 who should write the best technical paper for one of their journals. Thus the engineers' prize somewhat corresponds to the chemists' $1,000 prize for bright young men or women offered this year...