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...forsook the trappings of war to concentrate on fish. In 1886 he became a Tutor of Natural History, in 1896 Assistant Professor of Zoology. In 1890 he won his Ph.D. with a thesis: Pineal Fontanelle of Placaderm and Catfish. His interest in fish and his interest in armor remained parallel. In 1903 he was appointed Curator of Fishes & Reptiles at the Museum of Natural History. In 1906 he became Honorary Curator (without salary) of Arms & Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Almost the same time that he was obtaining the invaluable Riggs collection of armor for the Metropolitan...
Upon the attitude of the New York New Haven & Hartford R. R. depended many of Mr. Barlow's plans. He proposed that his motorway should parallel the New Haven's line, even in places using the New Haven's right-of-way. The New Haven's rail stations would serve as motorway stations and turnoffs. In return the New Haven would be granted an exclusive bus franchise on the motorway...
...country, but only recently has it been piped great distances and commenced to play a big part in the revenue of oil companies that previously had allowed it to go to waste. Last week two important natural gas deals were nearing completion. First was the construction of two parallel pipe lines to be laid from the Texas Panhandle to Chicago, 700 miles away. Cooperating in the project are nine companies, with the Insull interests representing the distributing end and Cities Service Co. representing the producers, who will share the $100,000,000 cost of the project. Chief of the producing...
...Great American Novel has never been written, perhaps never will be. But Author Dos Passos has made a bold bid for it. Certainly no U. S. novel has ever been more comprehensive than The 42nd Parallel, none has ever given a broader, more sweeping view of the whole country. At the opposite pole from Author Thornton Niven Wilder (TIME, Feb. 24) who writes neat, classical tales of other lands. Author Dos Passos unwinds a rapid, impressionistic, five-reel cinema of his own U. S., from 1900 to the War. Of more ambitious scope tha Cineman David Wark Griffith...
...Plan is ingenious, effective. Three parallel streams of action run through the book, appear in turn, like plaits in a braid:1) Newsreel, 2) The Camera's Eye, 3) the story of one of the five main characters. The Newsreel is a cleverly mixed medley of headlines, scraps of news stories, popular songs. Like clocks striking the hour, each newsreel sets the time; also serves as caption. The Camera's Eye, brief scraps of autobiographical reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually...