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...University of Texas, later worked for a while on the Dallas News. In 1919 he broke into New York on the old Herald. He was never an outstanding reporter. He stayed with the Herald when Frank Andrew Munsey merged it with the now defunct morning Sim and when Ogden Reid merged it with his Tribune...
...sister was born little Willie was tethered to a tree along with a calf, and there was a pail of milk close at hand, for which they both struggled, and into which he tumbled and was nearly drowned." Thus Mrs. Edith Gittings Reid, wife of Harry Fielding Reid, Johns Hopkins professor of dynamic geology & geography, begins The Great Physician: A Life of Sir William Osler, published last fortnight.- Her book is briefer (293 pp.) than Harvey Williams Cushing's two-volume year-by-year life (1,413 pp.). Yet she gives a full picture of "the greatest physician...
...buffaloes (protected by the U. S. and Canadian Governments), in Europe 59 known bison (protected through the European Bison Society). Most important European herd is the Duke of Bedford's at Woburn Abbey, England, where he has successfully crossbred the American and European strains. Next week Director William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological Society sails to Europe to study the possibilities of a bison breeding park in Poland. If he finds the project feasible, his Society will appropriate $15,000 for the plan...
Majesty's secretary Momchao Vepulya. His appointment occurred by virtue of long service to the family of the late Mrs. Whitelaw Reid at whose home, "Ophir Hall." the royal party stayed. Barber Fischer described a summons to "Ophir Hall" about ten days after the operation on His Majesty's eye, "to come up and shave His Majesty. The King, I may say, usually shaves himself. Now his beard had grown in the interim. I was aware that this would be a very difficult operation. ... I was ushered into a room almost pitch dark, a room about...
...being devoted to discussion and preparation of the next day's lesson. Staggered and rotating, the school schedule was revised to permit all subjects to share equally the advantageous hours of the day. As a proper setting for the plan, the dingy, formal old schoolroom desks in Reid Hall-carved by four generations of Lake Foresters-were ripped out. Tables, chairs, businesslike office desks were installed. A classroom at L. F. A. now looks like the board room of a successful but curiously youthful business house. Last week Headmaster Richards was able to announce the tangible and intangible results...