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Died. Frederic Eugene Ives, Si, inventor (in 1886) of the half-tone engraving process that made possible the reproduction of photographs in newsprints; of chronic nephritis and myocarditis; in Philadelphia...
Competition from the new Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus (TIME, March 29) has caused the Big Show-the one & only Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus-to bestir itself to present this year a spectacle more exciting than ever. Young Si old who marched into Madison Square Garden last week to see the season's premiere emphatically agreed that the 1937 circus was truly, as advertised, bigger & better...
...dungareed men who rode into the Nation's Capital in battered trucks was the last flicker of the East Coast strike. Never authorized by Union heads, as is the Pacific Coast strike, the Atlantic fight has been nowhere near as clear-cut. On the Pacific last week after Si days there were still 235 ships tied up and only foreign bottoms cleared port. On the Atlantic, however, many a U. S. liner and freighter steamed away and two powerful unions (Masters, Mates and Pilots of America; National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association), which had joined Seaman Curran's insurgents...
Jovial, grey-haired, leather-faced Major Tuttle was a Boston lawyer before he joined the Army in the War. His three high-school horses, Vast, Si Murray and Olympic, can each do 135 different tricks. Each trick has a technical name like the piaffé (trotting on one spot), the passage (highly accentuated trot with slight forward movement). His horses get neither beatings for punishment nor carrots for reward. The best that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight...
...Class of 1915 at the U. S. Naval Academy "Dodo," "Si," "Charlie,"; "Mayevski" and "Johnny" all meant happy-go-lucky, good-natured John Semer Farnsworth of Cincinnati. Appointed on recommendation of Representative Nicholas Longworth, long before that T. R. son-in-law became Speaker of the House, Midshipman Farnsworth won a certain notoriety for his bibulous escapades, was recognized by classmates as an able scholar and tactician. Few years after graduation he took up aviation, studied hard and long, became a Lieutenant Commander in 1925. Two years later his Naval career ended dismally when a court-martial dismissed him from...