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...candidate for New York State's convention on repeal of the 8th Amendment was bald, square-cut Vivian Burnett, original of Little Lord Fauntleroy, written by his mother, Frances Hodgson Burnett, in 1886. Now a free lance writer, he told newshawks: "I was a perfectly normal boy-I got myself just as damn dirty as the other boys. I could write a book about what Fauntleroy has been to me. I try to get away from...
...sporting public, the ceremonious cricket altercation was much less exciting than the tennis news from Melbourne, particularly the news that concerned Australia's newest and queerest tennis phenomenon, 16-year-old Vivian McGrath. The four U. S. players who went to Australia last October for a tour like the one which Tilden & Johnston made in 1920, knew about Jack Crawford and Harry Hopman, mainstays of last year's Australian Davis Cup team. But all they had heard about McGrath was that he is a boy wonder who hits his backhand shots with both hands. As soon as they...
...Author. Versatile but able, Gilbert Vivian Seldes is the only man who has ever contributed steadily and simultaneously to both the (late) Dial and the Saturday Evening Post, the (late) Manhattan Evening Graphic and the New Republic. He has been music critic, military expert, war correspondent, editorial writer & foreign correspondent (Philadelphia Public Ledgers), political correspondent (L'Echo de Paris), associate editor (Collier's), managing editor (The Dial). contributing editor (The New Republic), dramatic critic (Manhattan Evening Graphic). At present he writes a Hearst-syndicated colyum. His adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata was a 1930 box-office success. Harvard...
...floundering transport, leaving his passengers to die. At Long Beach, Calif, last week the reverse of that incredible episode was enacted. Lieut. Parker Abbott, U.S.N.R., nearly lost his own life while trying to make his terrified passenger jump from a spinning Navy plane. The passenger, another reservist named Floyd Vivian Schultz, sat motionless, paralyzed by fear. Lieut. Abbott tried in vain to push him out, finally had to jump, leave Schultz to crash with the plane...
...Sherrington-Adrian award gave Great Britain a score of six Nobel Prizes in Medicine, against the two for the U. S. Previous Britons: the late Sir Ronald Ross (1902), Archibald Vivian Hill (1922), John James Rickard Macleod (1923, while at Toronto), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1929). The U. S. Nobelmen: French-born Alexis Carrel (1912), Austrian-born Karl Landsteiner...