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...Washington the Austrian Minister, Edgar L. G. Prochnik, last week presented President Hoover with an equestrian statuet of Washington made of Austrian china. The Smithsonian Institution was preparing an exhibit of Washingtoniana. Rehearsals for Wake field, a folk masque by Percy MacKaye to be presented at Constitution Hall Feb. 21, were under way. The manuscript of one of Washington's Thanksgiving proclamations was displayed in the Library of Congress...
...Smithsonian, Washington...
Lucidity, Everyone who presents a paper before the A. A. A. S. must deal with Austin Hobart Clark, longtime expert for the Smithsonian Institution on oceanography, sea life, birds and bugs, onetime aide-de-camp to Louis, oceanophilic Prince of Monaco. Mr. Clark is director of the A. A. A. S.'s press service. He must make certain that facts are fit to print. Few men with technical education can express themselves lucidly. From Mr. Clark they learned that "manuscripts and abstracts should be written in the simplest possible language, and in such a way as to be under stood...
...author of the most original contribution to ''astronautics." Russia has her Professor Nikolas Rynin. In the U. S. the only important practicing rocketeers are Dr. Darwin O. Lyon and Professor Goddard. Professor Goddard is now working on experiments at Roswell, N. Mex. under patronage of the Smithsonian Institution and a Guggenheim fund. His magnum opus is a proposed turbine rocket ship by which the exploding gases will drive propellers while the ship is in lower atmospheres, change to direct rocket action in the upper strata where propellers lose efficiency...
...estate of unestimated value (possibly $10,000,000); to his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, save for $1,130,000 in bequests to friends, relations and institutions as follows: Amherst College, his alma mater ($200,000); Smith College, whence Mrs. Morrow was graduated ($200,000); The Smithsonian Institution; Columbia University; Union Theological Seminary; the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor; Englewood charities. To the late President George Daniel Olds of Amherst College; Professor Charles Theodore Burnett of Bowdoin College; onetime Dean Frederick James Eugéne Woodbridge of Columbia's graduate faculties; Martin Egan...