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Because it is easier to fire a field of winter grass in the spring than it is to plow the stubble under, and because "burning off" brings sweet young grass for cows to eat, many a U. S. husbandman is responsible for brush blazes that sometimes sweep into forest fires. Spring burnings last week sent greedy flames licking through richly wooded areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, eating up many a sawmill and farmhouse in their way, leaving charred dead acres in their wake. Virginia's Natural Bridge National Park lost 9,000 acres of timber; the Shenandoah National...
...Karl Koski, 30, Finnish carpenter, with a handkerchief over his bald head, clutching his sweater cuffs to keep his hands warm, passing through a brush fire and a field composed largely of Irishmen and other Finns; a national championship marathon (26 mi., 385 yds.), run around Silver Lake on Staten Island...
Last week-twelve months later, almost to a day-the Yale Record published its "House-Planners' Number." Less bitter, less funny than Harvard's lampoonings, Record artists and scriveners had taken up stumbling brush and unsure pen to abuse Edward Harkness again. He had given Yale more than $10,000,000 for a House Plan similar to that of Harvard (TIME, Jan. 20). Still unaware of the Plan's detail, Yalemen only knew that last autumn's excavations on New Haven's Elm Street were for a group of buildings vaguely designated as "Unit...
...University. It is a synthetic resin, somewhat like bakelite. In its original form it is a liquid composition the color of varnish which when exposed to heat becomes so solid that dropping or mild whacks will do it no harm. Like varnish too it can be spread with a brush but there the resemblance stops. Durium hardens so quickly that phonograph records, which are pressed from metal disks, can be stamped on it with the speed of a printing press. The manufacture of records is the first commercial use to which durium has been put, and so cheaply...
...just as alert as his self-portrait (see above). Born 50 years ago in Manhattan, he was named, by parents who loved literature, after the great Dr. Johnson. He went to the College of the City of New York (1899) and, like most Manhattanites who relish pencil and brush, studied at the National Academy of Design, The Art Students' League. In 1904 he married; he has two daughters. For a long time he did oil portraits, exhibiting widely, winning academic honors. But, says he, "I had to commercialize my art by pleasing aunts and uncles, grandmothers and old-maid relatives...