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...Rain. Artist de Caviedes left Spain because he had been painting murals in the Vatican just before the Revolution broke out and leaving the part of Spain he was in seemed the prudent thing to do. At the Milch Galleries, a young U. S. painter of romantic renown showed 19 unusual paintings of the Maine coast. Husky Stephen Etnier, Yale '26, married pretty Elizabeth Jay, of Westbury, L. L, and took her to sea on his schooner, the Morgana. Then they bought an island at the mouth of the Kennebec River and retreated from the world. Results: from...
...practical applications, the apparatus will open new fields of investigation in ballistics formerly unknown. By detecting defects in high speed machinery, by "freezing" practically any action, the new apparatus will show both how and why a machine breaks. Its applications in the automobile industry alone promise wide-renown for Riggs...
...Sweden, paid a visit to New Haven, and the Yale University authorities, agog over the rare opportunity of entertaining royalty, made preparations to celebrate this happy event with the utmost dignity and propriety. There was to be an exclusive little luncheon for only the mightiest figures of academic renown and of local society, then a reception for the rest of town and gown deemed eligible to meet a genuine prince. Nothing was overlooked except that the committee neglected to ascertain that the Prince's hobby was paleobotany - of all things. When the train arrived His Royal Highness eagerly scanned...
...room to land on the ice, Russian airmen refused to be worried, set out to search from Russia and from Fairbanks. Into the air too leaped Joe Crosson and several others of the eager band of Alaskan flyers whose rescue work in the past has brought them world-wide renown. From Los Angeles, Flyer James Mattern, who contemplates a transpolar flight to Moscow and who was once rescued in Siberia by Flyer Levanevsky, dashed non-stop to Fairbanks to return the favor in his new Lockheed Electra. Spurring the search, the Army Signal Corps station in Anchorage announced the receipt...
...first and greatest specialists in the field of obsolete securities, the over-the-counter firm of R. M. Smythe, Inc. gradually gained comfortable renown. President Smythe lined his office with bookcases full of precious old directories, bound volumes of The Commercial & Financial Chronicle and railroad almanacs from 1862 on. The more he studied old security issues the more convinced he became that owners of many forgotten bonds held title to vast if watery wealth. And because out of Sleuth Smythe's capacious hat gratifying miracles sometimes popped, trustees and executors got in the habit of laying the contents...