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Medium height and stoutish, the present Sage of East Aurora at 49 hunts, fishes, farms & rides much as did his famed father. Golf he dislikes as it shows nothing for the effort. He prefers chopping wood. The Buster Brown cut of the thick hair, the flowing black silk tie, the wide-brimmed felt hat of the founder have been adopted (and greatly modified) by the son. But here the father-son resemblance ends. Many changes have come to the Shops. In the early days all of the workers were shareholders; profits were split; Hubbard the First took a salary...
...Kyoto 46 years ago, he was dedicated by his parents as an artist almost as soon as he could walk. He was apprenticed to the late great Seiho Takeuchi who made him study the lives and habits of wild fowl for 16 years before he might set brush to silk panel. For several hours a day he was made to squat in the marshes, by the duck ponds, silently meditating (a practice he still pursues). When Seiho Takeuchi decided that Hori knew enough of the plumage, the habits, the anatomy, the temperament of ducks he was allowed to begin painting...
...request. Somewhat puzzled, Mr. Woollcott read the play, soon discovered why his services were in such demand. Playwright Behrman's stage direction for the part was: "He should look like Alex ander Woollcott as much as is physically possible." Showered with congratulatory telegrams and flowers, attired in green silk dressing gown and blue silk pajamas, Actor Woollcott found himself an instantaneous success the morning after the Manhattan premiere. Said he to his Press: "The part I play doesn't need acting. The character has absolutely no emotions. Anyone with a good speaking voice could walk through...
...Court, as the appeal proceeded, stalked Lord Kylsant, the appellant, one of the most impressive peers in Britain, a man more than six and a half feet tall, broad in proportion and fault- lessly garbed in cutaway and silk hat. Several times the Baron arrived at Court and departed from it in his twinkling limousine. But when the time came for Mr. Justice Avory to deliver his verdict on the appeal Lord Kylsant stalked to a cell, bent his massive head to enter and seated his great frame on the small cell chair to wait...
...cheap silk ribbon is used as conveyor belts from two small electric generators to two 2-ft. copper spheres mounted on glass rods. The ribbons pass into the spheres through slits and over pulleys on cams within the spheres. At the generators, from copper brushes, the ribbons pick up small charges of electricity, one ribbon positive, the other negative. Entering the copper balls, the electric charges are taken from the ribbon (silk is a less good conductor than copper) and stored on the balls' copper surfaces. Large voltages accumulate quickly as the ribbons whiz through their slits, silent...