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...official program, about 100 pages in length, will not be ready until about Saturday, December 23. The official committee, headed by President-Emeritus Lowell, the honorary chairman, and Karl D. Compton, President of M.I.T. honorary vice-chairman, and including: Samuel C. Prescott of M.I.T., active chairman; Arthur L. Townsend, also of M.I.T., active vice-chairman; and Kirtley F. Mather, of Harvard, secretary. These officers along with Arthur L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of Harvard University, are exerting every influence to make this a smooth and efficient meeting. Last spring Mr. Samuel Woodley, representative of the association from Washington, was here making...
...Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodan, 71, Britain's Wartime Foreign Secretary, gravely, of heart disease, in Christen Bank, Northumberland; California's Governor James Rolph Jr., of congestion of the lungs and high fever, in San Francisco; Betty Compton Walker, of colitis, in Evian-les-Bains, France; Actress Tallulah Bankhead, of acute abdominal trouble, in Manhattan; Valerie Marguerite Germonpres von Stroheim, third wife of Film Director Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Nordenwall von Stroheim, of burns about the head and shoulders and seared lungs when a hair-drying machine in a beauty shop ignited, in Hollywood...
...cousin, John Loder, persuades him to double for him. Loder turns out to be the man that Chilcote should have been. His speech arouses cheers. He falls in love with Chilcote's lovely estranged wife (Elissa Landi), does his best to dismiss vampirish Lady Joyce (Juliette Compton). Chilcote's faithful servant Brock (Halliwell Hobbes) is party to the deception, helps prolong it until Chilcote is dead and Loder has nothing but a War scar on his wrist to remind him that he has been a masquerader...
...conservation measures (details to be worked out in co-operation with the Administration). Biggest of all it set up a "Lumber Code Authority Inc." which will 1) estimate consumption, work out production quotas; 2) set minimum prices so that no lumber products may be sold below cost. Dr. Wilson Compton, manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, promised the code would meet a "cordial reception" in the industry...
...what promised to be the greatest balloon ascension ever made-a flight to the stratosphere by Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle. Ceremonies lasted seven hours. Soldiers and sailors paraded the field. Massed bands countermarched. Radio loudspeakers brought from Manhattan the voice of Professor Arthur Holly Compton. scientific director of the flight, wishing Commander Settle luck in breaking Auguste Piccard's 10-mi. altitude record and in gathering data on cosmic and ultraviolet rays. A major-general had the honor of starting the hydrogen gas hissing into the acre of white rubberized bag-biggest ever built. An admiral...