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...best" men of the U. S., their identities carefully guarded, this week became specimens for genetic study. At instance of the Aristogenic Association photographers started after these ten men, in company with phonographers, artists, anatomists, physicians, psychologists, anthropologists, interviewers. When the specialists get through, society will have their detailed records. For each there will be still and moving pictures; talkies and phonograph records; sculptures of hands, face, bust and other body parts; finger prints; medical history; family case cards; minutiae of every sort which Dr. Charles Benedict Davenport has been accumulating in the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor...
Last week Lydia Southard, ten years older but no less fascinating to men, escaped from the penitentiary. Other women prisoners played a phonograph and sang loudly while she filed the bars of her cell, sneaked out to the yard. There she dug up a ladder, fabricated for her in the prison blacksmith shop by love-struck convicts and buried by an infatuated guard. She nimbly scaled the wall, let herself down the other side by a blanket rope. Waiting in an automobile to carry her away, prison officials believed, was one David Minton, a recently paroled prisoner who had fallen...
...richer. In the Reynolds Building 122 employes on day and night shifts sorted and stapled the mail. Within a few days they stopped being surprised at such oddities as a letter in a crate so it would attract attention, letters in little known foreign languages, answers sent in on phonograph records, sometimes set to music, answers in fancy leather volumes, others engraved on metal, some cast in plaster, one wrapped around a baby's shoe. Many contestants sent in pictures of themselves, many appealed for aid. Not immune to the deluge was E. I. duPont deNemours & Co., maker of cellophane...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy:* Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana by Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan (Victor, $13.50)-Mascagni's earthy melodrama expertly played on its home field. Conductor Carlo Sabajno captains an evenly matched team. Symphonic: Stravinsky's Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra by Igor Stravinsky and the Orchestra des Concerts Straram under Ernest Ansermet (Columbia, $6)-The composer provides the lace work for the Caprice which was played with great success this winter by Sergei Koussevitzky. Glazunov's Seasons by a Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Glazunov (Columbia...