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...long black snout of a locomotive snuffled loudly and puffed rings and flowers of white smoke into a dark blue breezy evening. Bands played and the people of Rapid City cheered, waved, called "Goodby . . . Good-by Grace! . . . Good-by Cal. . . ." President Coolidge stood bowing and gesticulating; he made no speech, for already he had told the assembled population that "the hospitality that has been extended to us has been nothing less than remarkable. . . ." Mrs. Coolidge and John Coolidge laughed and waved. Then the locomotive snout sneezed, the wheels began turning and the Coolidges, standing on the back platform...
Usually he avoids company. Except for large, liquid brown eyes, he is unattractive in appearance, small, dark, easily embarrassed, almost shrinking in person. When he avoided college he probably spared himself many miseries. Though he weighs only 125 pounds, his appetite is large . . . steak and lamb chops for breakfast. He sleeps long and soundly. Despite his father's prominence, he is so carefully unobtrusive that he might have reached his present age without attracting more than statistical notice, were it not for his precipitous enthusiasms and precocious successes...
...night." Using infra-red rays, on the long-wave edge of the spectrum of visible light, and an infra-red-sensitive cell of which Inventor Baird alone knows the secret, the Baird "noc-tovisor" transmits by wire or radio an image of a person sitting in a pitch-dark room. Some of Inventor Baird's admirers went to London to converse with and look at him, 200 miles away in Leeds in his dark room. They saw his long, hungry face with pince-nez and haystack hair, not perfectly but most recognizably reproduced. Over the telephone they asked...
Other Jerdanowitsches were bequeathed to the world. One showed a sprinkling of eyes against a dark background gashed by zigzag lightning flashes. To the uninitiated it looks like rash on a hairless dog. La Revue Moderne of June 30, 1927, grew ecstatic over this one, wrote about "this strange artist's inspirational paintings," recounted his troubled biography. Another of his inspirations was a woman kneeling before a totem pole in the Polar regions, its title "Adoration...
Engaged. Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt, 30, actress; to Louis Camera, actor. A onetime sketch artist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he made his first stage success in Cobra in 1924, and last winter appeared with Miss Hoyt in The Dark. She in 1914, aged 17, married Lydig Hoyt, clubman, divorced him in Paris in 1924. She made her stage debut with William Faversham, in a revival of The Squaw Man in 1921. The two years following she spent with Stuart Walker's Stock Co. in Indianapolis & Cincinnati...