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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Frank X. Leyendecker, 45, famed illustrator of magazine covers and originator of the "Arrow Collar" type of masculine beauty; at New Rochelle...
...This type of "crusading newspaperman" has disappeared, says Mr. Vanderlip. It is to make up for the extinct species that he has founded his Citizens' Federal Research Bureau...
Niela Assen, Norwegian inventor in the French service, has developed still another type of war machine, consisting of nests of explosive and gas bombs, operated by radio from a distance. These "mechanical soldiers" could hold a front of several hundred miles against enemy invaders with a small staff of engineers. Mr. Assen expects to present his scheme to the U. S. War Department...
...Significance. The book is another outbreak, amid the general epidemic, of sketches of a much-written-about generation. While highly colored (as is inevitable in this type of account) with the author's personal predilections and prejudices, it is nevertheless readable, frank, humorous, and not, perhaps, more egotistical than need...
...Schauenesse, son of a French baroness, and owner of a rare aviary; Joseph McGoldrick; and Henry Norris. The hoatzin is so rare a bird that few scientific men have ever seen it except William Beebe (TIME, April 7), who tracked it down in British Guiana. It is a primitive type, relic of vanished ages, closely allied to the pterodactyl, first known fossil bird. It has a very strong beak, with which it has been known to break rocks. It swims like a duck, its wings are webbed like a bat's. The newly hatched hoatzin has long claws...