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Onetime chairman of the Yale chapter of the A. A. U. P. is Professor Yandell Henderson, able physiologist, expert on noxious gases, no fearer of publicity. Born in Kentucky 58 years ago, graduated from Yale in 1895, he is a somewhat unkempt savant, fond of his pipe, his British tweeds, his tennis. Professor Henderson developed gas-masks used by U. S. troops in the World War, has done much research in automobile exhaust gases, in the biochemistry of respiration and the physiology of circulation. Year ago he wrote an article for the Yale Alumni Weekly in dispraise of "industrializing education...
...hits his leading lady with an open hand. Thirty years old, he has had three wives, all older than himself. The present Mrs. Gable, whom he married twice, is 40. Every one knows that he receives more fan letters than any other male actor in Hollywood, smokes a pipe, likes horses, hopes to retire in ten years. He looks a little young for his role in Possessed but he gives a sharp, competent performance...
...daily, proven reserves of between 125 and 135 billion cu. ft. Until last week the competitive interests who owned the gas had found no adequate market. A pooling of interests is now under way to market some of the gas which will be carried in a 20-in. pipe now abuilding...
Author. Henry Fowles Pringle, 34, was born in New York City, graduated by Cornell in 1919. Slender, dark, thoughtful, sucking a thin-stemmed pipe, he reported for New York papers (Sun, Globe, World), steeped himself in New York politics, contributed to magazines. In 1929 for a year he was acting managing editor of Outlook, is still an associate editor. His other books: Alfred E. Smith : A Critical Study (1927), Big Frogs (1928), Industrial Explorers (1928). A relentless researcher, he has fleshed out the earlier Roosevelt admirably but his penchant for politics has somewhat blurred the man in the White House...
When younger, militant, more ambitious Conservatives begged Leader Baldwin to put some kind of pressure on the Prime Minister, to demand at the very least that two-thirds of all ministries in the post- election National Government must be turned over to Conservatives, Mr. Baldwin knocked out his pipe and said...