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...Author. Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 46, good-looking but unmarried, lives near Springfield, Ky., where she was born, whither some of her ancestors had plodded from Virginia over "Boone's Trace." Independent, self-contained, her speech and writing alike are full of a mannered dignity, a compound of books and Kentucky dialect. Before she settled down to be an important U. S. novelist she wrote a book of poems, Under the Tree, which won the Fiske Prize. When the Literary Guild chose A Buried Treasure for its November book Authoress Roberts hung up a figurative trophy: she was the first authoress...
...joviality, learning, stimulation and insight that his every patient, student and colleague revered Sir William Osler as a demigod. For more than a decade (he died in 1919 at Oxford whither he had gone from Johns Hopkins), Medicine has agreed that there never was a studious, teaching practitioner like him. A request for a list of living U. S. doctors who approach Osler in knowledge, expertness and teaching last week brought answers from a jury representative of the profession. Out of 36 different names suggested as great in the U. S., the jury agreed only on the Brothers Mayo...
...apartment in midtown Manhatttan, in West 40th Street opposite the Public Library whose engineering room he still occasionally haunts, and near the Engineers Club which he no longer will visit. In that apartment he kept a few terrifying but harmless lightning machines. The swank St. Regis Hotel whither he moved two years ago was no place for such devices. Dr. Tesla contented himself with studying four pet pigeons which nested in his rolltop desk. Maids complained. He moved...
...special Chesapeake & Ohio train late one night last week picked up President Hoover at Orange, Va., whither he had motored from his Rapidan camp, and carried him across the Appalachians and the Alleghenies on what was widely recognized as the opening of his campaign for re-election next year. His special whisked him through West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, all States that had turned against him last year, and on to Indiana. At Indianapolis he detrained, was greeted by Governor Harry Guyer Leslie. His first address was delivered in the evening to 5,000 members and guests of the Indiana...
...raise your hands. All right, then, all of you who aren't afraid get out of the way and let those who are afraid get up to the windows and get their money." Few came up; some of these had foolishly taken their money, deposited in First National whither it would have gone if not withdrawn...