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...Nicholson who designed the Shamrocks. Velsheda was rigged according to the new international rules which provide that racing craft may have light duralumin masts but must have full cabin accommodations for owners and crew, and must have gear-handling equipment on deck (not below deck as on Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's sleek Cup-winner Enterprise). Mr. Sopwith commissioned Designer Nicholson to build him a yacht even faster than Velsheda. He will call her Endeavor and, contrary to British custom, in Cup challenges, he may take the helm himself...
Some 8,000 racegoers turned out at the Long Island estate of the late Hugh A. Murray one day last week for the autumn meet of the United Hunts Racing Association. They saw Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's chestnut gelding Blot win the main event, the Manhasset Steeplechase, by a half-length. They saw Winston Guest astride Lady Newberry win a thunderous race for polo ponies after his cousin Mike Phipps fell from a slipping saddle in the stretch. But what they enjoyed most, and what many of them had come specially to see, was the four-furlong...
...restoration of normal relations, in the sewing of tissues, and the closure of wounds. This is itself an exquisite piece of craftsmanship, even to the tying of the last stitch." With the foregoing apostrophe to Surgery, which he has served for 40 years. Professor William David Haggard of Vanderbilt University last week in Chicago assumed the presidency of the American College of Surgeons. The Fellows of the College settled down to a hard week's round of lectures, conferences, clinics and surmises, which President Haggard's further rhapsody on Women lightened. Cried Dr. Haggard, who has lived...
...Nashville and Vanderbilt University too is Professor Eugene Lindsay Bishop, 47, last week at Indianapolis elected 1914 president of the American Public Health Association. *Recently published is Surgeon Martin's two-volume autobiography, The Joy oj Living (Doubleday, Doran $7), which yields flashing glimpses of the important surgeons of the past half century. *No kin of Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey of San Francisco who still claims to be alleviating hopeless cancer with adrenal cortex extracts (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931 et ante...
Died. Dr. George Arthur Dixon, 76, U. S.-born physician; after long illness; in Paris. He attended President McKinley after the Buffalo shooting, the late J. P. Morgan during his last illness in Rome; was personal physician to the late E. H. Harriman and W. K. Vanderbilt...