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Last August Vincent Bendix, industrialist son of a Methodist minister, who starts and stops most of the world's automobiles (Bendix Drive, Mechanical Four-Wheel Brakes), gave to Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin $135,000 with which to proceed to China, draw plans of two ancient Lama temples and buy their trappings. Last week Mr. Bendix was thanked by King Gustaf of Sweden for one of these temples which he had given to Stockholm. It will cost some $65,000, will be erected by Explorer Hedin, who will assemble the other one, also at Bendix expense, in Chicago. Purpose...
...Called Honorable because he was the second son of Viscount Amberly, Philosopher Russell is famed as mathematician, radical, pacifist. One of "twelve men" who understood Einstein's Relativity Theory, he wrote The A B C of Relativity (1925). Last week he said he did not understand the "last five pages" of the Einstein "Coherent Field Theory," latest Einstein hypothesis, printed on six pages (TIME...
Married. Elinor Patterson Codman, onetime beauteous nun of The Miracle, onetime reporter, and frequent flying companion of her father Joseph Medill Patterson, potent publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Liberty (nickel weekly), the New York Daily News (tabloid); and Griffith Mark, son of Chicago steelman Clayton Mark; at Greenwich, Conn. Her first husband (divorced 1929) was Russel Sturgis Codman Jr,. of Boston...
Died. William Reed, 19, son of Professor Elmer Bliss Reed of Yale; off the Maine coast in Frenchman's Bay; of drowning. Three weeks ago he was lost with his sloop in a squall. The body was found by a lobster fisherman off Egg Rock Light after 150 lobster boats, two yachts, two seaplanes had searched many days...
Died. Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., 77, son of the U. S. President; at Sandberg Lodge, near Los Angeles, Calif.; of heart failure. A Harvard graduate (1874), for a short time his father's secretary at the White House, he turned to law in Manhattan, practiced there 17 years. Never famed, he received public attention for: 1) His notorious defeat when a candidate for the U. S. Senate from California (1898) after which he was charged with election corruption, was later exonerated; 2) His erection, as a realtor, of the U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego at a cost...