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...University of Chicago Magazine last week, Surveyor Visher (no star) ranked U. S. universities according to the number of faculty members among 851 star-winners since...
...Tarim River which drains futilely into a marsh. Part of the project was to use the futile Tarim to irrigate arid Sinkiang Province, end its paralyzing famines. To fix where the life line will fall, Nanking last week appointed famed Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin to be surveyor-in-chief. Stocky, prosaic Surveyor Hedin planned last week to take over his eight-month...
...Going for the Cows," "One More Shot." Between 50,000 and 100,000 were made and cast between 1860 and 1900. They sold for $15 to $25 each. Gentle John Rogers was born in Salem, Mass, in 1829. He worked in a machine shop, later as a draughtsman and surveyor, but modeling in clay was his deepest interest. His family always insisted that John Rogers was a self-taught sculptor. In 1858 he had saved enough pennies for a trip to Italy - not originally to study but to rest his overstrained eyes on the long sea trip. In Rome, where...
Back in the U. S. he got a job in the Chicago City Surveyor's Office. The Civil War was brewing. The U. S. Sanitary Commission, ancestor of the Red Cross, held fairs all over the country to raise money. For the Chicago Sanitary Fair Sculptor Rogers donated his first group, "Checkers," two figures bending over a draughts board, one laughing, one glum. It was the hit of the fair. In New York he showed his next piece, an Abolitionist number entitled "The Slave Auction." No dealer would handle it because of the amount of Southern sentiment...
...Surveyor W. J. Ma thews of Lloyds: "Two of the Rex's three turbodynamos were ready early this morning and the third was put in operation about 6 a. m. only to break down again...