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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also a co-founder of Standard Oil Co.), looked like Andrew Mellon and had a finger in several Mellon enterprises, few had ever heard of old John Lockhart. He was born, lived and died in the same street in Pittsburgh's east end. He ate sparingly, rarely drank, never married. No intellectual, he read few books, but was fond of the theatre and made a hobby of collecting theatre programs, which he always had autographed by his companions. He was a member of Philadelphia's Union League Club, contributed regularly to the Republican Party...
...waved, blew whistles, made comparisons. They found the new Mauretania a sturdier but less speedy version of the old, nearly two knots slower (average speed: 20.7 knots); less roomy (1,300 passengers); 13 feet shorter (length overall: 722 feet), but 4,000 tons heavier. Built for comfort, she will never duplicate the speed record of the "Old Girl," who held the mythical Blue Riband 22 years, until Germany's Bremen took it away (Cunard White Star's Queen Mary now holds...
...wonder of life never paled for Professor Conklin. When he taught undergraduates and flashed images of microscopic plants and animals on a stereopticon screen, Conklin himself looked at them with open-mouthed awe. At the close of their senior year he always advised his students to get married the day after graduation. From 1908, he stayed at Princeton, ripening not only in years, but-as many other old-fashioned teachers do not-in wisdom and prestige...
...Streets of Paris is a thoroughly agreeable, if never remarkable, revue, made to order for hot weather visitors. Although it is about as Parisian as a hot-dog stand, it makes the grade by continuous liveliness, Broadway showmanship and savvy...
...rare in Flemish art. Most famous of all, and best proof of "Master Hans's" ability to handle crowded, minute composition, was his series of six panels on the life of St. Ursula from Bruges' own ancient Hospital of St. John. According to legend, the artist might never have painted this challenge to the Italian rhythmists if he had not found sanctuary in the hospital as a wounded soldier during a Flemish rebellion against the Habsburg rule...