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...their constituents (as well as their children, grandchildren, etc.) that they had perfect attendance records in the House during the first session of the 69th Congress. These Representatives never missed a roll call, whether for a quorum or a vote: Cannon,† Missouri; Green, Florida; Hill, Washington; Huddleston, Alabama; Quin and Rankin, Mississippi; Swank, Oklahoma, Democrats; McLaughlin and Mapes, Michigan; Miller, Washington, Republicans...
Died. Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, fourth Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 85, twice challenger for the famed America's (yachting) Cup (with Valkyrie II, 1893 and Valkyrie III, 1895, both designed by Watson; defeated respectively by Vigilant and Defender, both designed by Herreshoff) ; at London...
...dispose of Muscle Shoals is again before Congress, this time in the form of a recommendation from a joint Congressional committee set up several weeks ago (TIME, March 22) to receive bids. There were six men on the committee: Senators Deneen, Sackett, Heflin; Representatives James (Mich.), Quin (Miss.) and Morin...
...francs. Twelve still life canvases by Chardin brought prices ranging from 26,000 francs to 220,000 francs, while his self-portrait reached 126,000 francs. Latour's Portrait of the Painter Silvestre went for 140,000 francs. Per-roneau's Portrait of the Painter Guille- quin brought 250,000 francs. The Louvre got Durameau's Partie de Cartes aux Bougies for 36,000 francs and Saint Aubin's Rêve for 76,000 francs. Hubert Robert's Vouté reached 8,000 francs. By auction, Durighiello's Venus Accroupie, excavated in Asia...
...whooping cough, pass the child nine times over and under a donkey from left to right." That is a prescription of the 17th Century. For the same complaint, 100 years ago, a doctor would have shaken his head, stroked his beaver, written Pil. Quin. Sulph. on a brown pad, and the mother would have thought she had a cureall. Today medicos do not always find it necessary to fortress their ignorance with esoteric metaphors; many can talk, some can even write, of their calling refreshingly, candidly, in simple words. An example is Dr. S. M. Rinehart, who has written...