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...said goodbye to Albany, given Governor Franklin Roosevelt his blessing, left the capital while a band played "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." Then back to Manhattan he came, checked in at the Biltmore, began the theoretically obscure existence of a private citizen. The theory, however, proved unsound. Newspaper men, camera men, came to the Biltmore. They came to the Prudence Building, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street, where Mr. Smith had opened an office.* They wanted to know what Mr. Smith was going to do now. Annoyed, Mr. Smith said that he had no announcement to make, that he did not desire daily...
Died. Joseph Willard Legg, 41, famed expert in oscillography (wave phenomena), inventor of the osiso (portable oscillograph) and the polar high-speed camera. Westinghouse associate; of pneumonia; in Wilkinsburg, Pa. With his camera, which takes 3,000 pictures a second, Inventor Legg discovered that lightning flashes are a series of complex spirals...
Several famous Harvard personalities came under the eye of the camera during the past week. The University Film Foundation felt that its picture of Harvard life would be incomplete without movies of Dean Briggs, Professors Merriman and Kittredge, and other University notables...
...sort no less disagreeable to newcomers. For a few hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars' Hill, and Shot-over. The dome of the Radcliffe Camera, the spires and towers of St. Mary the Virgin's, Magdalen, Merton, and the Cathedral are lost in the lower reaches of this fog-bank. The streets are shining with wet; the Old Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College and University buildings look like the cubic masses...
...Commerce & Labor under Roosevelt, friend of the late Hunter Carl E. Akeley, will sail on Jan. 19 for Africa, push up the river Nile, into the Livingstone Mountains, in quest of birds, beasts and vegetation for the American Museum of Natural History. No gun-toter, she will use the camera...