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...famed nuptial dance, though no mate was there to see it. More & more lonely he grew, began to boom (spread his feathers, inflate his sacs, dance) in places where no heath-cock had ever been known to boom before. Then he too disappeared and last summer Professor Alfred Otto Gross of Bowdoin College read his obituary before the American Game Conference. But suddenly he appeared again, sadder, more lonely than ever. Last week watchers on Martha's Vineyard heard him booming...
...Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann sailed for Germany and home. Between lectures he had found time to visit with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana at Cambridge, Senator Borah in Washington, Playwright Eugene O'Neill in Manhattan; to view a production of Sadko at the Metropolitan Opera; to lunch sumptuously in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's elegant dining room (see cut). Said he upon sailing: ''The two outstanding things in my visit . . . were meeting O'Neill and attending Mourning Becomes Electra. . . Americans have such easiness of approach. You are cordial and dignified without being stiff and conventional. Your phrase...
Experiments on conduction in gases are being carried on by Professor Otto Oldenberg, who came to Harvard in 1930. His special field is the excitation of atoms and molecules studied largely by spectroscopic methods. He has also organized a course of fundamental experiments in atomic physics for graduate students...
...Cavendish laboratories are among the finest in the world," Otto Oldenberg, professor of Physics, said yesterday, in connection with the recent announcement of the discovery of the neutron at Cambridge, England, "and the reputation of the men working in them is well established, but until scientific proof substantiating such an important theory has reached America, little can be said in way of comment...
...Lincolns must be delivered in Russia, according to the contract, by Red May Day, when the Soviet tourist season opens. The roster of the rich who went to Russia last year included Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, many a Junior Leaguer, many a Social Registrite...