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...given during the fortnight, the audience of 5,500-near capacity of the temporary tent-was as impeccable and polite as any in Symphony Hall or Carnegie Hall, included such folk as Violinists Efrem Zimbalist, Albert Spalding, Jacques Gordon, Mrs. E. Parmalee (Alta Rockefeller) Prentice, Dancer Ted Shawn, Mrs. Alvan T. Fuller (wife of Massachusetts' onetime Governor), U. S. Ambassador-at-large Norman Hezekiah Davis, Novelist Owen Johnson, Mrs. Edward S. Harkness and many another social column name. Most of them sat in boxes which were shrewdly placed in a double row in the middle of the tent...
COMBINATION: Alexander B. Comstock, Jr. '40, stroke; James L. Tyson '39, No. 7; Phillip Dean '39, No. 6; John L. Senior, Jr. '38, No. 5; R. Peters Burr '40, No. 4; David Seull '39, No. 3; Chandler Hovey, Jr. '39, No. 2; David Stiles '40, bow; Alvan...
...poll supervised by NLRB, Packard's 14,780 employes voted 4-to-1 to make U. A. W. their sole bargaining representative. Thus forced to become the first major motorman to grant U. A. W. such a privilege, Packard's President Alvan Macauley sagely observed: "We are pleased that the matter has been determined peacefully and with apparent good will all around...
Commented Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach, Manhattan pneumotherapist who is largely responsible for the use of oxygen to treat weak hearts (TIME, April 6, 1931): "Accidents from fire in oxygen tents or in oxygen rooms are extremely rare. When they do occur, they are caused by some reckless action on the part of the patient, such as lighting cigarets. This man must have lit a cigaret. The theory that a spark might have flown from the motor over to the oxygen tent is untenable...
Last year a London dentist and archeologist named Alvan T. Marston found a primitive skull fragment in the gravel at Swanscombe, Kent. Few months later a bigger piece, the left parietal bone, was discovered. In his latest report to Nature Dr. Marston stated that his skull is more primitive in a number of points-including a lower and more sloping vault, "flat ruggedness and non-filled out contours"-than the skull of the Piltdown man, and therefore that the Swanscombe man should be assigned his rightful place as England's oldest oldster...