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...kept coming back. One day he spotted a fly with vermilion eyes instead of the normal red. Dr. Morgan had had to etherize the insects and go over them with a magnifying glass to verify the mutation. He admired Bridges' eyesight, gave him a job nursing the flies forthwith...
However, Mr. Graustein had his own idea about this arrangement. He interpreted the board action as a vote of no confidence, sat down forthwith and wrote a three-page resignation. Having by repute no love at all for Chase National Bank, Mr. Graustein is supposed to have spied that institution's long hand behind the directors' attitude. Elected to succeed him was Kraftman Cullen. Even Mr. Graustein does not know where Mr. Cullen was born...
...Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the Senate Munitions Investigation Committee, asserted with an air of discovery that President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 had "falsified" to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about his knowledge of Allied secret treaties. Senate oldsters led by Texas' Connally and Virginia's Glass forthwith passionately gave the lie back to Senator Nye, excoriated him as a monstrous despoiler of honored graves. Discovering that the Nye committee was almost out of funds, they promised to oppose granting it another dollar (TIME, Jan. 27). When the Senate sound & fury had died down, historians quietly pointed...
...passersby on Broadway wondered if there had been an accident at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Hundreds of people jammed the front entrance, fought to get inside the lobby. That morning seats went on sale for the Wagner matinee cycle. By night every last one had been sold. Forthwith Manager Edward Johnson, by announcing that The Nibelungen Ring would be repeated in an evening series, precipitated another frantic rush for seats. This week the orchestra will sound out the rolling E flat chord which introduces Das Rheingold. The dwarfed, matty-haired Alberich will snatch the gold from the river...
...when the curtain fell. As a person Fremstad was as incalculable as a storybook diva. When she swept off stage she was as likely to embrace every one she passed as she was to wither them with a glance. Once she suddenly discovered that her name had 13 letters, forthwith had herself billed as Olivia Fremstad, changed back again to Olive when she realized that Richard Wagner had 13 letters in his name. She adopted the grand manner without reservation, kept a houseful of servants, a car and a chauffeur when that luxury was uncommon. In her grandiose moods...