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...Henry Lewis Stimson (two of whose ancestors were May-flowerites) by chatting longest with another U. S. guest. Point Three: after the ladies had had their tea Queen Mary said a few last gracious words, then surprised her guests by walking straight at a wall consisting of a huge mirror in front of which stood a half table. Just when it seemed that the 62-year-old Queen Empress' eyesight must be failing, that she had mistaken the mirror for a passage, the whole contraption suddenly revolved, mirrored wall and table turning upon noiseless hinges, and Mary vanished into wonderland...
General Electric's revered Elihu Thomson was succeeding so well in making small quartz mirrors for telescopes that last week he reaffirmed his promise of delivering a 200-inch mirror to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) in two or three years. It will be twice as wide and six or eight times as heavy as the Mount Wilson glass mirror (world's largest) of the Carnegie Institution. It will reflect four times as much light and probe eight times as far into space. Consequently, with it astronomers will be able to infer many new things about the structure...
Great have been donations to Caltech: The Rockefellers' general education board $3,000,000; the Carnegie groups $250,000 and more; Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics $350,000. Southern California Edison Co. gave a laboratory. General Electric is giving the great quartz mirror at cost. Within reason Caltech can get what it needs from U. S. eleemosinary and industrial institutions and its enthusiastic personal backers. Its preeminence as a research and teaching school, the high-grade of its staff and the prestige of its trustees makes this possible. Twenty years ago there was a Throop College...
...named Schomberg. Richard Arlen helps 'her to escape from disgusting fates imminent for her on every side. The sordid background Conrad had in his mind, a background in which, at the world's outposts, civilized formulas are stretched so thin that they become a satiric mirror for human behavior, has been changed into decorative and often admirable picture postcards. Best shot: Schomberg throwing the band leader downstairs...
...bronchial pneumonia. A native Pittsburghian, he rose from copy boy and reporter to be at various times editor of the Pittsburgh Press, the Pittsburgh Leader. In 1912 he married Beauty Lillian Russell, was devoted to her until her death in, 1921. In 1928 he purchased the New York Daily Mirror (tabloid), sold it six months later. At his deathbed was Cinemactress Marion Davies, whose ranch he had been visiting...