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...Kaplan was more cheerful than usual last week as he strode from room to room in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, smiling at patients and fussing with x-ray machines. He had just received word of a European loan. Next month will arrive a $280,000 package addressed to him. Stripped of its wrappings it will weigh exactly four grams-about as much as a new U. S. penny-and it will make Dr. Kaplan guardian of more radium than anybody else in the Western Hemisphere. Of the 100 grams in the U. S. & Canada, 40 grams will be combined...
James A. ("Jim") Reed was in court in Jefferson City, Mo., arguing the $1,000,000 suit of the wealthy Snyder Brothers against Union Electric Light & Power Co. when a whispered message interrupted him. He strode to the bench, asked to be excused on urgent business, hurried by automobile to Kansas City. There he learned that his good friend Mrs. Nelly Quinlan Donnelly had been kidnapped with her Negro chauffeur. Onetime Senator Reed was shown a letter just received from Mrs. Donnelly by her husband Paul...
...Five heavy black Cabinet chairs were lined up last week on the official posing ground back of the Executive offices. Out strode President Hoover with a grey hat, Vice President Curtis with a black one. Secretary of State Stimson marched out in a derby. Soon the full Cabinet was assembled. A solid semicircle of cameramen began snapping, clicking and cranking at them to get the first picture in more than a year of the President & official family. Secretary of Labor Doak stood at attention on the left next to Secretary of the Navy Adams for his first picture with...
...Boys surpassed in tension a scene enacted last week in the editorial office of the Spectator, undergraduate daily of Columbia University. At his desk was Editor Reed Harris, a dark youth of studious mien but tall, well setup. Around him stood some of his associates. Into the room, glowering, strode burly Ralph Hewitt, captain and quarterback of the football team, closely followed by even burlier William McDuffee, the team's centre. Ralph Hewitt had a copy of the Spectator in his hand. He was smoldering with anger...
...concert in Manhattan last week German Bruno Jaenicke, reputed the world's greatest French horn player, huffed, puffed & snuffed valiantly through the first two movements of the Concerto which Richard Strauss wrote for his horn-playing father. Then, exhausted, Horn-Player Jaenicke left the stage. Conductor Erich Kleiber strode after him, but no amount of persuasion would return Bruno Jaenicke to his snuffling misery. An unprecedented announcement was made: the Philharmonic was unable to finish a number it had started...