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Because of his own enthusiasm for science, Van Anda made it front-page news, devoting big space to Marconi's experiments in telegraphy and to Peary's and Amundsen's polar expedition. He led the way in making Einstein and "King Tut" U.S. household words...
Lord Carnarvon's expedition to the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922 so fascinated Van Anda that he immersed himself in Egyptology. When the first photographs of King Tut's tomb arrived in Manhattan, Times editors wondered where an expert could be found in a hurry to translate the hieroglyphics on the wall; Van Anda did the translating...
During the last days of the King Tut story he came down with pneumonia. He never fully recovered. Though the Times listed him as managing editor for another seven years, he actually retired in 1925. He spent the succeeding years studying mathematics and astronomy, now & then catching Sir James Jeans or the British Museum in error. Last week, in his Park Avenue apartment, he got a piece of news by telephone: his only daughter had died. Two hours later, Carr Van Anda, 80, one of journalism's greats, died of a heart attack...
Among the fringier gents of the "give it hell" school of Chicago jazz is Boyco Brown, the alto saxophonist, who not only studies metaphysics but applies them to his musicianship and even his everyday existence. When he tangled with spiritual Tut Soper (who also plays phenomenal piano) the lid was off and it was strictly a case for the man with...
Boyce and Tut decided they could play better if they confined their relationship to music and nothing else. So for two weeks they didn't speak to one another and didn't even look at each other. Folks used to travel all the way from Milwaukee just to see Boyce and Tut backing up to the bandstand from opposite sides at the beginning of each set, mouths grimly clamped as they groped their...