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...Flinders Petric, British archacologist, visited the temple and the mines and found proto-Sinattic inscriptions in an unknown script, apparently a Semitic alphabet derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, of great interest to philologists. Harvard expeditions in 1927 and 1930 visited Serabit and carried forward Petrie's investigations of the temple and mines, but no excavation of the temple was attempted...
Hard-working Walter Damrosch toured the U. S. for years thereafter, with nis own Damrosch Opera Company and with the New York Symphony which played in scores of towns where great orchestral music was completely unknown. While still in his 20's the young conductor learned the value of diplomacy, the power of a bouquet. He kept peace among his jealous singers. He made friends with Andrew Carnegie who built Manhattan's big concert hall. When visiting Carnegie in Scotland he met Maine's James G. Elaine and soon after married Elaine's Daughter Margaret...
Even humbler was the Rev. Brother C. F. X. Athanasius who had a fine still life of a plate of peaches for $35. Taxi-driver Joseph Dunphy would never have had his two pictures in the exhibit at all if an unknown benefactor had not donated the necessary $8 after appeals printed by kindly newshawks...
...ablest middle-distance free-style swimmer in the U. S. since Johnny Weissmuller became a cinemactor. Peter Fick, last week's free-style sprint winner, 20 years old, 185 lb., broke Weissmuller 's 100-metre record last year. Third of last week's main Olympic hopes, unknown nationally until this winter, Adolph Kiefer is a 16-year-old Chicagoan, trained by his father, onetime swimming instructor in the German Army...
...blaze was of unknown origin and the firemen made short work of putting it out. There was no damage to the building...