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Last week there congregated in Washington many a heavy thinker for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Half a peanut an hour, the thinkers were told, would furnish sufficient calories to sustain their heaviest mental work; thus a small bag of peanuts each would have seen their brains through the three-day sessions of the Academy...
...came to the U. S. in 1897 and became, with Willie Anderson, Ben and Gilbert ("Gil") Nicholls, one of the game's U. S. quartet of Grand Old Men. Witty, violent, robust, strong-tongued, he was a great teacher. He loved to recall the time when a golf-bag was an object of ridicule. "Do I look like a sissy? Well, that's what they called...
...important musical organizations last week started bag and baggage on important tours...
...charge against Doheny was that he had bribed Albert Bacon Fall, Secretary of the Interior, in 1921, with $100,000 in cash, delivered by Doheny's son in a little black bag, in return for a lease on the Elk Hills Naval oil reserve in California. Five months ago, on practically the same evidence used against Doheny, Fall was convicted of receiving a bribe (TIME, Nov. 11). Admitted by the defense in both cases was the transfer of money, the leasing of Elk Hills. For each jury to decide was the intent behind the giving and the taking...
Many and potent are the stories of the "Caterpillars." In 1919, the blimp Wingfoot Express flew over Chicago on a good-will tour of inspection. Directly over the business section, one of her motors backfired, flames licked open the hydrogen-filled bag. In an instant, the peaceful scene changed to a holocaust. Four of the five passengers jumped with parachutes. The fifth, his harness tangled, fumbled and fumbled with it as the white-hot wreckage carried him to death. The flames ignited the parachute of one of the jumpers. He dropped straight to destruction. The other three landed. One died...