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...province of entertainment and nowhere else. If there are others who wish to use this medium for a message which they imagine the world is yearning to hear, the obvious course for them is to get a camera and go to work." Bouncing out of the opposite corner. Prof. Fred Eastman, of Chicago's Theological Seminary, countered with a straight right to the heart. "Whether the producer knows it or not," he jabbed, "he is an educator. He shapes emotions, intelligence, sets up character patterns and everything that determines outlook on life...
Divorced. Prof. William Ellery Leonard, 61, poet, English Professor at the University of Wisconsin, famed for the "phobic prison" which keeps him within a few blocks of the University; by Grace Golden Leonard, 29; in Madison. Wis. Soon after they were married in June 1935, Prof. Leonard announced that his wife had taken him by the hand and led him out of the six-block area in which he had been held by agoraphobia. The cure was only temporary. A year ago Mrs. Leonard obtained a divorce, later had the decree set aside. The grounds were the same...
...months Prof. Piccard had been talking of stratosphere ascents in which the lifting power would be provided not by one big balloon but a cluster of small ones. It was his theory that with such an outfit he could keep on ascending until some of the balloons burst (because of the diminishing outside air pressure). Also, he could descend at will by putting several balloons out of commission with a pistol. He thought 2,000 four-foot rubber balloons would be enough for a record flight. Last week's ascent, using only 80 balloons, was in the nature...
...left his personal effects. No bequests were made to friends or servants. Bulk of the estate, estimated at $10,000,000 after taxes, was left in trust to Mrs. Margaret Strong de Cuevas, daughter of the late Bessie Rockefeller Strong, oldest of Rockefeller's five children, and Prof. Charles Augustus Strong, now living in Fiesole, Italy. She is the wife of Marquis George de Cuevas, Spanish nobleman. They have two children. Elizabeth and John. Rockefeller's will explained that he had provided for his other children and grandchildren during his lifetime. First hearing the news, the de Cuevases...
Achilles is a Cornell pig, neurotic pet of that university's Prof. Howard Scott Liddell. Prof. Liddell taught Achilles to get an apple by lifting the lid of a box with his snout when he heard a buzzer. Sometimes the coveted apple was missing. Such disappointments put Achilles in such a mental state that he could not make up his mind to try for the apple at all. This was as truly a nervous breakdown as any human being ever suffered, said Prof. Liddell. Achilles "would lay his snout on the cover of the box, close his eyes...