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...were 300 guests at Lynnewood Hall one day last week, more than could be seated in the dining room with its dark red French tapestries and the majestic bust of the great Prince de Conde. The ballroom, with its Louis XV and XVI furniture, its Chinese vases, its four crystal chandeliers, was filled with tables. Joseph Early Widener, master of the Hall, was having a large party...
...actual running of the Kentucky Derby, over a mile-and-a-quarter of chocolate-colored loam at Churchill Downs, takes a few seconds more than two minutes. As the horses paraded to the post last week, Crystal Prince shied at the loud band playing "Swanee River." Cee Tee and Tick On made trouble at the barrier. Cee Tee was placed outside and when the barrier finally sprang after 15½ min., Tick On was pocketed behind the field. It took Fator on Brother Joe about a half-mile to find that he had picked the wrong horse. Brother Joe pulled...
...Adolf Butenandt of Gottingen crystallized the female sex hormone theelin a few months after Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis had done so, thereby losing the scientific glory of priority. Last week Dr. Butenandt announced ahead of anyone else that he had crystallized the analagous masculine hormone. The new crystal yet lacks a name...
Good fellows, these guests from Paris, the Britons thought. Short, witty, cigar-chewing French Premier Andre Tardieu had never turned up in more engaging fettle. He and his huge, long-boned Finance Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin, not only pleased Scot MacDonald by the crystal lucidity of their plans for rescuing Danubia from near bankruptcy but provoked him at a midnight session over Scotch and cigars to roars of midriff mirth which did his morale a world of good. Facing newsfolk just before M. Tardieu dashed back to Paris, dignified Scot MacDonald beamishly confessed, "We did overflow a bit at times...
Another great year in the Insull epic was 1910. North of Chicago were ten small towns (Antioch, Grayslake, Barrington, Crystal Lake, McHenry, Dundee, Carpentersville, Gary, Palatine, Arlington Heights) with 15,000 people, each with a local plant and electric service at night. These plants were bought and junked, the transmission systems interconnected and power sent efficiently from one central station. Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois is now regarded as the engineering germ of the great superpower systems. It was the forerunner of Mr. Insull's great Middle West Utilities System, now serving 5,321 communities...