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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thendara 50 miles north of Utica. N. Y., State troopers had to board the train, quell Porter Smith by threatening to use tear gas bombs," the editorial adds...
...awed by him. They know that "to be trained by Wheeler is to be assured of success." He has two distractions from his eye work, and both are of a kind-the farm he recently bought at Underbill, Vt, and the home he is building at Riverdale, N. Y. There is one other, recent accomplishment of Dr. Wheeler's which contributes to his eminence. He removed the cataract from the King of Siam's left eye. Although a cataract removal is a simple operation for a trained eye surgeon, the Royal Siamese case projected Dr. Wheeler...
Children of California. Native of Gainesville, N. Y., Cornell graduate (1872), robustious baseball player (he broke his nose at it), studious teacher of Zoology, David Starr Jordan became president in 1885 of Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind. Aged 34, he was then Youngest U. S. College President. He began at once to reorganize his inland, politically controlled institution, to cajole dollars from lackadaisical Indiana legislators. He put in practice a then radical notion: to mold education to the student rather than to force the student into a tight educational jacket...
...type face for the magazine's headings and captions. In course of its development one of his foremost craftsmen died, the work was halted. Later Typographer Goudy installed a cutting and casting plant in an abandoned mill on his own place at Marlborough-on-Hudson, N. Y., himself resumed the task. Last week the June issue of Woman's Home Companion appeared with the new type, a light, graceful letter to be named "Woman's Home Companion Old Style & Italic." The designer described it as "a letter with a degree of strength, yet with a touch...
Although Mr. Jones is often in the West, buying royalties and championing the cause of an oil tariff, he lives in Scarsdale, N. Y., golfs at Westchester Country Club, surf-swims at the Lido on Long Island. His first name remains in the nature of a trade secret. At the University of Kansas soda-jerking J. Edward Jones was simply "Blondie...