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Paris newshawks learned that the bodies of Pierre Curie (d. 1906) and his wife Marie Sklodowska Curie (d. 1934)) co-discoverers of radium, will soon be removed from their crypt outside Paris, placed in the Pantheon...
...manager of a paint factory he wanted to write books. His ambition was accomplished but not satisfied years ago. U. S. readers and critics rank him high for such Americana as Winesburg, Ohio, A Story Teller's Story, a few others. If there were a U. S. literary pantheon he would be in it. But Author Anderson, like many a lesser man, goes on talking when he is no longer on the air. His latest book, characteristically entitled No Swank, is a collection of 17 articles, some of which have been published in various magazines or newspapers. Anderson lovers...
...Robert Ripley's "Odditorium," sufficiently thrilled by the dizzying Sky Ride. He will have banged his bones on the breath-taking Cyclone Safety Coaster and the Flying Turns, a toboggan which makes its twists through semicylindrical tunnels. He surely will have wearied his feet after viewing the Pantheon of the War and the similar Battle of Gettysburg cycloramas. In short, the visitor will be ready either for bed or for a place to sit down with a glass of beer or his own hard liquor and have a different kind...
...confused with the Panorama is the Cyclorama, a single long painting in which one place or event merges into the next. Examples: the famed Pantheon of the War (402 ft. by 43 ft.) done by aged & infirm French painters, now in Chicago (see above); Battle of Gettysburg (404 ft. by 72 ft.), by Paul Philippoteoux, also in Chicago...
...nearby woodland cemetery. Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House of Bat'a's 25,000 working partners gathered not to mourn but to dedicate. On a hill opposite the sprawling shoe works rises a brand new, two-story, ferroconcrete Bat'a Pantheon. Not a tomb-for the First Working Partner would never have wished that-the Pantheon is a mechanistic museum to Thomas Bat'a. Exhibits begin with the crude hand tools he used in learning his trade as a shoemaker's apprentice. Next come samples of the increasingly Fordized...