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American Chemical Association. Meeting in New York, the American Chemical Society elected to its presidency Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Chemical Enterpreneur and Honorary Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. Dr. Baekeland, a Belgian by birth, is an American by adoption. He is best known for his invention of "bakelite," the...
Coincident with the action of the lawn tennis officials, word came from the Olympic Committee that no athlete competing will be allowed to record for the press the experiences of the American team. Thus far no literary pole vaulters have threatened in righteous indignation to forsake their poles for their...
Their fountain pens are not done jabbing, however. Under the protecting wing of Alfred A. Knopf who has befriended and encouraged many to whom smug society turned a deaf ear and an unseeing eye, they have started a new magazine, The American Mercury. While in the Smart Set, perhaps to...
It is obvious, then, why dramatic critics delight in impaling a squirming situation on their argute pens and holding it up for ridicule with delighted cries of " hokum." A show that is " all hoked up " is obviously the work of a group of playwright, author and producer who lack imagination...
William Randolph Hearst has the reputation of paying higher salaries to his writers than any other newspaper proprietor in the country. Lately he added another to his galaxy of facile pens, which includes Arthur Brisbane, James J. Corbett, George W. Hinman, Gene Sarazen, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Jack Dempsey, Lloyd George...