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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arguments over drinks and cookies before the judges returned from the jury room, asked four of the contestants to go over their scales. Frederic Langford's topnotes were the lustiest and Frederic Langford was fairly dithering when he knew that he had won. A native of Jamestown, N. Y., he has worked for six years in the Episcopal Church Book Store, recommending reading for women's auxiliaries, going evenings to the opera when he could afford admission to stand. Day after the contest a tinny borrowed piano was carted out of his rooming-house and the shiny Knabe...
Died. Dr. Elon Howard Eaton, 67, ornithologist, head of the biology department of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N. Y.; after long illness; in Geneva...
Before dawn one day last week workmen scurried about a dim, vast room in the Corning Glass Works at Corning. N. Y. For one day they were to be both stagehands and actors. For weeks they had rehearsed every movement they were to make during one eleven-hour performance-the pouring of the 2OO-inch (16 ft. 8 in.) telescope mirror for California Institute of Technology. High as a house in the centre of the room stood a furnace which had been under fire for three weeks. In its great belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate...
...George Kojac, N. Y., a backstroke swimming race, making new world records for 440 yd. and 500 yd.; at Rutgers. Miss Lenore Kight, Homestead, Pa., a free-style swimming race, making new world records for 440 yd. and 500 yd.; at Boston...
Three years ago a Buffalo, N. Y. autoworker named Clayton Woods bought an Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket on Gregalach in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. When Gregalach came in second, Clayton Woods was richer by $886,360. Cried he: "I'll buy that horse Gregalach and keep him in a velvet stall."* To most newspaper readers, stories like Clayton Woods's are of lively interest. Nonetheless, it looked for a time as if the U. S. Press might not be allowed to print this most familiar form of human interest feature. After the Derby of 1931, when...