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...principal objection to the autogiro as it stands today must be considered without thought of the element of safety in the craft. It is the three-fold interlocking item of price, speed, fuel cost. The autogiro flies somewhat slower and at a greater fuel consumption than an ordinary airplane of the same price. However, the designers declare that the possibilities of streamlining and other refinements have barely been touched. Inventor. Chubby, wealthy Juan de la Cierva, 37, is son of a Spanish statesman and lawyer. His father has been Minister of War, Minister of the Interior, last week was appointed...
...Three-fold was Editor Kendall s attack on testimonials. First he got an article from Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed literary critic and exponent of advertising.* Under the title: "Lucky Strikes Save Florida's Crew," Mr. Calkins deplored the fact that Hero George Fried had hardly docked before he was endorsing Lucky Strikes via radio and newspapers. It is Mr. Calkins' agency that has created the famed Fire Demon in the Hartford Fire Insurance advertisements; to the testimonial demon Mr. Calkins is equally antagonistic...
...years ago, prospective business men went to law school in order to obtain training in scientific methods of research and unshackled thinking--prime requisites in any field of endeavor. Now the mountain has come to Mahomet, and the Harvard Business School uses the case method, with the three-fold purpose of exciting critical analysis, encouraging the use of scientific methods, and giving training in business procedure...
...Rhodes Scholarship Trusiees are erecting a large building to be known as Rhodes House, at Oxford University, as a center for the activities and influences of the Trust, according to information recently received here from Oxford, England. The new structure has a three-fold purpose. It will, in the first place, provide a central hall for the annual dinners which are given in accordance with Cecil Rhodes will. A library with shelf space for 60,000 volumes will also be installed in the building to relieve the congestion in Bodleian Library. Finally, Rhodes House is to serve as a gathering...
...Rhodes scholars in residence at Oxford each year number 96, two per state. They are elected from their states by old Rhodes scholars living therein, two elections coming in each state every three years. Last week, Dr. Frank Aydelotte, President of Swarthmore College and American secretary to the Rhodes trustees, announced the names of 32 appointees chosen from 507 candidates on the customary three-fold basis of "character, intellectual ability and physical vigor...