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...Croatian-born inventor of electrical equipment (Tesla induction motor, Tesla coil, Tesla transformer): Yugoslavia's Grand Order of the White Eagle and Czechoslovakia's Order of the White Lion, top honors of those two nations; by their U. S. Ministers; on Dr. Tesla's 80th (or 81st) * birthday, in Manhattan. As is his birthday custom, Dr. Tesla received the press and announced a series of new marvels, including an apparatus "by which energy in considerable amounts can now be flashed through interstellar space"-but no models, no drawings, no equations...
...81st Piedmont Dairy Festival Virginia's U. S. Senator Carter Glass crowned Elsie Triplett, of Fauquier County, Regina...
...Manhattan, as on preceding birthdays (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934), newshawks sought out beautiful, little white-whiskered Dr. Charles Giffen Pease on his 81st birthday. Dr. Pease obliged: "My friends, I can tell a poison addict at a glance. I go into the park to walk. I pick out the children who are receiving cocoa, a drink as noxious as the poisonous alcohol. How can I tell? By the degeneracy of the skin, and the tissue around the eyes. It is unfailing. 'Madam,' I say, 'your child is receiving cocoa.' 'Yes,' she replies...
...81st birthday of Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the President, was published Gracious Lady, a biography of her by Rita S. Halle Kleeman (Appleton-Century, $3.50). In it appeared a quotation from a diary in which Husband James Roosevelt, 26 years older than she, exulted thus over the birth of their only child: "Monday, January 30, 1882. At quarter to nine my Sallie had a splendid large baby boy. He weighs ten pounds without his clothes...
...Clay County. Ala., Hugo Black never finished secondary school, never went to college, though in 1906 he was graduated with honors by the University of Alabama's law school. He spent brief periods as a police judge in Birmingham, as a county prosecutor, as a captain of the 81st Field Artillery. In 1926 the late Oscar W. Underwood, disgusted with Alabama politics, announced his retirement from the Senate. Unknown Hugo Black was the dark horse in a five-man primary for the Underwood seat. Without any prominent support, he put on a wrinkled suit, climbed into a Model-T Ford...