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...shown are great masterpieces in engraving including Pollainole's Battle of the Nudes, Mantegna's Virgin and Child, and Battle of the Lea Gods; Albrecht Durer's Melancholia, Knight of Death, Adam and Eve, St. Gerome in his Cell; Rembrandt's Three Trees, and Three Crosses; and the Black Lion Wharf, and Fiddler; by Whistler. A group of old engraver's tools serve to make clearer the technical processes, and to make the exhibition more interesting...
...very modestly. He smiled steadily. He said that he came to America seeking fights with Mike McTigue (who defeated him for the world's light-heavyweight championship in Dublin), Luis Firpo, Jack Dempsey. He was accompanied by his manager and two other French fighters (all white). His pet lion was not in the party...
...discovered " gluckokinin," an insulin substitute derived from green vegetables (TIME, June 4), and he especially profited by the friendly oversight and advice of Dr. J. J. R. McLeod, professor of physiology, who has also been mentioned for the Nobel Prize. To Dr. Banting, however, must always be given the lion's share of the credit for the idea and its development. In May, 1922, the work had proceeded far enough to be offered to the medical profession for testing. Tests, conducted by a special committee in several hospitals, have since proved the value of the specific, and John D. Rockefeller...
...crime?and, of course, Sonora Jack, the outlaw, dropped in occasionally?and Natachee, a philosophic Indian, was always monologuing his way about the crags?in fact, now and then, the good old canon got so cluttered up with characters there wasn't room enough left to swing a mountain lion...
...Jerusalem, made an appeal on behalf of the Patriarchate, at a luncheon of the American Committee on the Preservation of Sacred Places at the Hotel Pennsylvania, Manhattan, last week. It is not expected that America and England will allow the cradle of Christianity to suffer permanent decay. Richard the Lion Hearted would turn in his grave...