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...older brother, Edwin K. Buttolph wrote the song when he was an undergraduate at Hobart College, Geneva. N. Y., in the early '20's. The music was by a college mate and was first published in the Hobart College Song Book...
...stranger to Soviet propaganda trials was the prosecutor. Stocky Andrey Y. Vyshinsky, decorated like a prize Percheron with the ribboned rosette of the Order of the Red Flag, served as presiding judge at another Soviet circus, the famed Shakhta Trial of five years ago (TIME, July 2, 1928 et seq.). But the presiding judge last week was not at all what foreign correspondents expected. Judge Vassily Ulrich, a chubby, baldish, moon-faced little fellow, was amiable, quite as eager to exchange quips with witnesses as any periwigged British magistrate...
...opponent of capital punishment, co-developer (with two other physicians and Thomas Alva Edison) of the electric chair; of old age; in Flushing, L. I. Dr. Rockwell & colleagues electrocuted 19 animals before their device was tried out, amid nation-wide protest; on one William Kemmler, murderer, at Auburn, N. Y...
When one Farnham Fox, a tuba player, got out of his Bayside, N. Y. apartment three months early, he offered an excuse-complaint not new to landlords-a plague of insects. Last fortnight in Flushing's Municipal Court, Musician Fox's suing landlords submitted this letter which they had sent him: "The insects you complained of are crickets and no doubt are found in most of the homes and apartments of Bayside. They are harmless, and many people enjoy their chirping; in fact, there was a poem [sic] dedicated to 'The Cricket on the Hearth...
...Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor of medicine in modern times, established the New York Infirmary. New York and Philadelphia medical schools would not admit Elizabeth Blackwell to study. But the Geneva (N. Y.) Medical School took her and she received her M. D. degree in 1849, causing much comment throughout the U. S. and Europe. While doing postgraduate obstetrical work in Paris she infected an eye, lost its sight. One of her associates in the New York Infirmary was Marie Zakrzewska who shortly went to Boston where in 1859 she founded the New England Hospital for Women & Children. Quakers supported...