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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of the credit for restoring the white Frill-back, until recently a decadent breed, to its old prestige. He now judges some 30 shows a season, handles 50,000 birds, travels 30,000 miles a year. His fees for judging roughly cover his traveling expenses and the L. & N. is generous about leaves of absence because pigeon fanciers on the way to a show make a point of riding on the same train as the judge, usually take their stock with them in the baggage car. Judge Keifer has no time to write answers to the hundreds of requests...
Tabor, a science instructor at Episcopal Academy who, wearing a skating cap and sheepskin coat, "shoots" on fair nights from 7 o'clock to n. Dr. I. M. Levitt of Franklin Institute comes out every day to make solar observations on the Cook spectrohelioscope. These data are sent to the Paris Observatory which collects solar reports from all over the world for the International Astronomical Union. Gustavus Wynne Cook is an extremely able and versatile craftsman. In his roomy machine shop on the third floor of "Roslyn House," he made a three-inch star transit of a new type...
...winning the game. Chief Bingo operators are cinema houses, clubs, and Roman Catholic churches in the East, the first discovering that the game fills the house no matter how poor the picture, the latter two finding it a fine money-raiser for worthy causes. The Catholic Bishop of Albany, .N. Y. last month outlawed Bingo in his diocese (TIME, Dec. 21), but his apostolic colleagues of the East have not followed suit...
Last week an attorney of Linden, N. J. named Max J. Berlin moved to bring the Law on Bingo operators. Under a statute which allows "informers" to collect 1% of fines levied upon lawbreakers, he had evidence collected, instituted suits in the name of a client against 14 theatres and lodges, six churches. Said Lawyer Berlin: "This demoralization of the public must stop at once...
Died, Dr. Alexander Hamilton Phillips, 70, famed Princeton geologist, onetime (1911-16) mayor of Princeton, N. J.; of heart disease; at Princeton. In the carnotite ore of Utah and Colorado ten years ago he discovered and refined the first U. S. radium. Died, Andrew Jackson Montague, 74, Democratic Representative from Virginia since 1913, onetime (1902-06) Governor; after long illness; in Urbanna...