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...CURTIS KNOX Rochester Life Underwriters, Inc. Rochester, N. Y...
Kodakman George Eastman had some guests-Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Michael I. Pupin, General John J. Pershing, Owen D. Young and many another bigwig-at his home in Rochester, N. Y., last week. He showed them some motion pictures in color. He told them how simple the process was. Years of complicated experiments have gone into developing the Kodacolor film, minutes of mechanical adjustment are enough to operate it. Color photography is still imperfect; not all the primary colors can be made to go into the eye of a camera and come out lifelike but such...
Married. Clarence Shepard Day, 53, author (This Simian World), son of the late Clarence S. Day Sr., onetime governor of the N. Y. Stock Exchange ; and Katherine Brigges Dodge, 27, librarian, of Concord, Mass., in Manhattan...
...cross between St. George and Don Quixote"-one might add P. Y. Barnum to Author Long's analysis, and so justify Asquith in diagnosing Bryan as "a peculiar product of your country." If by peculiar he meant curious, there are those in this country who would agree; if, which is more likely, he meant typical, there are those who would cavil. Not so Author Long, who writes a sympathetic though by no means fanatic account of the loves and hates, works and troubles, of the peculiar product...
...spitting on one's hands for efficiency is the trick of stuffing a sponge up a racehorse's nose to make him (or her) inefficient. It was tried last week at Empire City, N. Y., on a five-year-old mare named Alita Allen, a 4 to 5 favorite. But she won the race by four lengths, the sponge having been discovered and removed before the start...