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...Fairchild retired from active service in 1935. Now 69, he lives in Florida. In his early research years at Washington, he met and hobnobbed with many celebrities of that time, including Samuel Langley, William Crawford Gorgas, and Alexander Graham Bell, whose daughter Marian he married. His writing discloses some classic examples of pedagogical quaintness...
...Miss Pickford did not advocate Lysistrata's classic method...
...embodied in a question "Is it perhaps not desirable that the bulk of long-time financing of our major American industries should hereafter be done through the issuance of shares of stock, rather than by borrowings through the issuance of long-term bonds?" Taking the railroads as the classic example of an industry weighed down with fixed charges,* he pointed out that when a railroad fails, bondholders suffer just about as much as preferred stockholders...
...what pleased the Prix de Rome jury did not entirely please Mrs. Hailman. Sculptor Keren's classic nudes, she thought, could not gracefully wear those Indian names. So last week before he departed for Rome young Sculptor Koren gave his figures something else to wear. In plaster he added breech clouts to each, crowned each with a feather headdress. Said...
...MELANCHOLY BABY (Benny Good man; Victor). Classic fox-trot played in the now classic Goodman manner...