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...Herbert Spencer Dickey was back in Manhattan last week from his discovery of the Orinoco's headwaters (TIME, Sept. 28 et ante). Each day he went to his office in the Explorers Club to work on a tart book for which fellow explorers, lounging in the club's red chairs, may denounce him. To be published this winter, the book is a denunciation of expeditions, particularly those to South America. Dr. Dickey considers the aims of most expeditions falsely pretentious, insincere. Men go on most of them really for sport, not for science. Their scientific results...
...Music in Philadelphia last week. Tall, dark, long-haired, he is a capable pianist and lecturer, was dean from 1907 to 1924 of the School of Fine Arts at Chicora College for Women in Columbia, S. C. During the year 1928-29 he substituted for Professor George Sherman ("Dickey") Dickinson in music courses at Vassar Collegeildings in fashionable Rittenhouse Square, will take care of the curriculum, edit the Institute's monthly Overtones. Like his predecessor, Dean Grace H. Spofford who resigned to do radio-educational work, he is subordinate to Director Josef Hofmann who also heads the piano department...
...bright-eyed, hard-muscled little wife" of Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey. I have accompanied my husband on a number of trips, through Ecuador, Peru and Brazil, and on one occasion to within 300 miles of the source of the Orinoco with...
...Rosita Forbes or Lady Dorothy Mills, I am satisfied with my just deserts, desire nothing more. ELIZABETH DICKEY...
...constant reader of TIME since Volum 1, No. 1, I have noticed the article in your issue of Aug. 17 regarding my father, the late Walter S. Dickey, and the agreement between Mr. H. L. Doherty, M. B. Sharp and myself...