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Others objected to Mr. Haynes' adding to his meager salary of $5,000 by what should be the handsome returns of his syndicated articles and book. Lloyd George, who attempted a similar feat while in office, was compelled by public criticism to promise the proceeds of his memoirs to charity?and finally abandoned the project...
Died. George L. Buff, 84, manufacturer of instruments which have been used in surveying practically every great engineering feat for 50 years...
...back as 1881 he conceived the idea of a Greater Serbia, and it was largely through his ingenuity and foresight that the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes came into existence. He is also responsible for getting the present Constitution through the National Assembly-no easy feat in view of the Creation opposition. He is now 75 years of age and is known as the " Grand Old Man of Serbia" or the " Father of the Constitution...
This incident in the early history of flying is recalled by the recent feat of Major General Mason M. Patrick. General Patrick, who had been transferred from the Engineers Corps to the Air Service only two years earlier, is 60 years of age. He is now Chief of the Army Air Service, and in that position has many times taken occasion to use aeroplanes on his tours of inspection. Some time ago, in order better to familiarize himself with his duties, he began the regular flying course, and about three months ago formed the resolve of actually qualifying...
...years under twenty, lacking the specialized training which clips seconds from the work of college sprinters, runs into a world's record and just misses breaking it. He is perhaps the fastest runner in the world. Yet even the metropolitan dailies ignored their opportunity and buried the feat among the tombstones of the Sunday sporting section...