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...Serge Voronoff, gonad replacer, after a world tour last week returned to his 200 apes at Nice, France, prepared to proceed to his 3,000 sheep in Algeria. Of U. S. businessmen he remarked: "They die at the age of 50. They do not die in the sense that life is extinct. But they are exhausted, worn out, and as good as dead. Their lives are finished. It is due to the pace, the tempo of life in America, the price the American must pay for being ultra-modern...
...Brattvaag's radio was deaf to all. For at the request of the Swedish Government, Norwegian officials were flashing frantic orders to Dr. Horn and the Brattvaag's crew to permit no "unauthorized person" aboard the sealer, to maintain strict secrecy regarding the story, especially the diary, and to proceed immediately to a point between Tromso and Vardo...
...build up a school which will keep Midwestern boys near home before they proceed East to acquire the rest of their light and learning, "Big Dick" looks for help from a potent board of trustees. Among them: Robert Julius Thorne, one-time president of Montgomery Ward & Co.; Charles F. Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; Albert Blake Dick Jr. (mimeographs); President DeForest Hulburd of Elgin National Watch Co.; Clayton Mark (steel); Cyrus Hall McCormick (harvesters) ; President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern Ry.; Louis Franklin Swift (packer...
Last week in Nassau County, N. Y. the district attorney threatened to proceed against Curtiss-Wright Airport and Roosevelt Field as public nuisances because residents complained that planes droning over their rooftops at all hours of the night made sleep impossible. The matter was settled by the field managers agreeing to a curfew of 11 p. m. in summer, 10 p. m. in other seasons. Night flying, they explained, is a Department of Commerce requisite for student flyers in qualifying for advanced ratings...
Hoover, chief White House usher, super vised the work, offered suggestions. From the right wall across the hall a luminous Calvin Coolidge in oils eyed the proceed ings coldly. When hooks were imbedded in the left wall, a large framed picture was swung up into position. The workmen went away. Usher Hoover returned to his office. The next time President Hoover passed through the hall he noticed that an official portrait of Warren Gamaliel Harding had been hung...