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Died. John Taylor Adams, 76, taciturn onetime (1921-24) G. 0. P. national committee chairman, close-mouthed campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge; after long illness, in Dubuque, Iowa...
After the war, he rose in the Royal Air Force, married Olive Tennyson Foster, of Back Bay, Boston, and settled down to a life of thorough work and enthusiastic gardening. Now he is red-faced, grey-haired, tightlipped, taciturn, tough-a model of a gallant airman. The only thing he loves better than a party is a party from which newspapermen are barred. There is, however, one thing he hates more than a reporter-any man who shows...
Foremost U. S. rocketeer is Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard, who, backed by Guggenheim funds, runs a rocket-experiment station in the New Mexico desert. In his early experiments taciturn Dr. Goddard used ordinary gunpowder for fuel, has since switched to liquid fuels, such as a mixture of oxygen and gasoline, or oxygen and hydrogen-tricky to handle but highly efficient. He has sent rockets up vertically to heights of a mile and a half. His chief interest in rockets: as a possible means of carrying scientific instruments up higher than stratosphere balloons can take them. But experimenters abroad, especially...
...Hines, taciturn and parsimonious, mother of eleven, had small faith in her husband's and son's management of money. They gave her all proceeds from the smithy except what they needed for personal expenses. She also had small faith in banks. This, says Jimmy Hines, explains why he had no bank account after 1908, why he carried large sums of cash. After he married in 1904 his wife bore him three sons and took care of most of his finances...
...writing The Thibaults, taciturn, 58-year-old Roger Martin du Card, then almost unknown, won the 1937 Nobel surprise. With this much of his masterwork before them, U. S. readers may well feel that the award was justified...