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Last week despatches stated that Thomas Alva Edison had invited Dr. Lange to come and work with him. Dr. Lange declined...
Boris Luban, a celebrated artist now living in New York City, and whose recent portrait of Thomas Alva Edison has caused much favorable comment, has offered to the Phillips Brooks House Association a portrait of Bishop Phillips Brooks '55, which will be executed in connection with the coming observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the organization...
Progress: "Intellectual contacts have grown up between our two peoples. Italians fully recognize the contribution made by the United States to modern progress. The name of Edison is familiar to us all; so in the field of letters and philosophy are those of Longfellow, Whitman, Poe, Mark Twain, William James. I myself am a great admirer of Emerson and James. In the field of statesmanship Washington, Franklin and more lately Roosevelt are names which arouse our admiration." Bolshevism: "Our trade relations with Russia are of economic value to us, but they do not affect our internal policies. Fascism and Bolshevism...
Babe Ruth. James Joseph Tunney, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Charles Spencer Chaplin would be named princes...
...find that my weight keeps up on a glass of milk alone, every two hours. You eat less, yet you find your weight keeps up, and you feel better. Mrs. Edison tried it, always taking less and less, until [again the chuckle] she said she would have to stop, otherwise she wouldn't be eating anything at all, but would still feel fine." Will more research in health-biology and chemistry-mean less in electricity- and mechanics? "No, it brings new fields to work in." Whereupon, after a few more questions & answers on stray subjects, Dr. Edison tucked...