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ton EUentn0 Star Information Bureau,
Frederic j. HdsSin, Director, Washing
ton, d. C. Please incIose stamp for reply.
Q. Has six-cylinder car ever won the
Indianapolis 500-mile race?-F. w.
A. The only Six-cylinder car to win the
500-mile race was the Marmon Wasp,
which finished first in the first 5oo-mile
race, May 80. 1911.
@. Is an electric locomotive or a steam
locomotive Of simpler construction?-
N. S.
A. An electric locomotive is a much
simpler structure.
O. How many days illness does the
average person have in a year?-J. F.
A. An insurance company has eSti-
mated that approximately 2 per cent Of
the population Of the United States is
i'll at any given time. II this be true,
in the course Of year, 7.3 days would
be sick days. In other words, there
would be about or 8 days of sickness
per person per year.
@. Where was Robinson Jeffers, the
poet, educated?-E. M
A. He received his education at Occi-
dental College. Los Angeles, and at the
University of Zurich.
O. How many cities adopted a council
manager form Of government in 1882
H. L.
A. The number of cities adopting
council manager government in 1885 now
stands at II.
@. Please give some information about
AloiS Havrilla, winner of the American
Academy Of Arts and Letters medal for
good diction on the radio.-K. M.
A Born in PreSSov, Czechoslovakia
(then Austria Hungary, Mr.. Havrilla
came to the United States with his
parents when years old and lived in
a Slovak,community in Bridgeport. Conn.
On hearing Havrilla'S remarkable alto
voice, John Baker, director of the Bridge.
port Trinity Church Choir became in
terested in him and gave him both voice
and speech lessons. After a year Of
study he was given the alto role in
Handel's Messiah" This was the be-
ginning Of his singing career which con-
tinued almost uninterruptedly until he
was 16 when his voice changed to barry.
tone. He became a civil engineers ap-
prentice with a New England railroad.
Later he studied music with Percy Rec
tor Stephens and at New York Univer-
Sity. On the stage he sang in "HaSSan."
Nine. Pompadour." Louis XIV" and
THE Princess Flavia." He was teaching
music in the Briarcliff Manor, N. Y,
public schools when in 1926 he joined
the National Broadcasting Co. as bary-
tone and announcer.
@. How many miles does the average
motorist drive in a year,. S.
A. The average is about 5000 miles.
G. How could the battle of Jutland
be called British victory?-F. A. G.
A. Germany claimed victory because
her loss was II ships out Of q total or
llo, and 1858 officers and men, while
Great Britain lost IA ships out of 149.
and 6617 officers and men. The battle
was fought in May, 1916. Great Britain
accomplished her purpose in that the
German feet did not come out again
until it came to surrender in November
and. December, 1918.
O. How do elocution and oratory diff
fer?-N. c.
A. Elocution is the art of effective
speaking, regarding solely the utterance
or delivery. Oratory is the wider art. Of
which elocution is a branch. Oratory
takes account also of the matter spoken.
@. Who promoted the first child vel.
fare building in the world?-B. B. T.
A. Sophie Irene Loeb was directly in
strumental in securing the establishment
of the first building of this kind in 1921
in New York.
G. Did Charles w. Eliot teach any
place except at Harvard?-S. N.
A. He taught four years at MaSSachu-
setts Institute of Technology. Shortly
afterward, in 1869, he became the twenty
second president of Harvard University.
@. How large a city is Liverpool Eng.
land?-S. M. L.
A. At the census of 1881. the popula-
ton was $3.50. Liverpool is the prin-
cipal seaport of England for the At
lantic trade, and one of the greatest
trading centers Of the world.
@. Please give a biography of Gov.
| Alfred M. Landon of Kansas-K. G.
A. Gov. Alfred MoSSman Landon was
born at MiddleSex, Pa, September 9.
| 1887, son of John Manuel and Anne
Mossman Landon. He was educated at
Marietta Academy, receiving his LIB at
| the University of Kansas in 1908: LID.
WaShburn College, 1885, Marietta COL
lege 1884. He married Margaret Fleming
| of Oil City, Pa, January 9, 1915 (now
| deceaSed) and had one daughter, Mar.
! garet Anne, by that marriage. On jan
uary IS, 1880, he married Theo Cobb OF
Topeka. They have one daughter, Nancy
Josephine During the World War he
served as first lieutenant in the Chemical
Warfare Service, U. S. A. He has been
| an oil producer since 1912 and Governor
| of Kansas since 1888.
| @. At what height above the world
| would one have to be to view its entire
upper Side?-D. w. B.
A. Taking the equatorial radius OF
| the earth to be 3,963.34 statute miles. it
| will be necessary to ascend 968 529. 90
miles above sea level to see the earth as
a sphere.
A Rhyme at Twilight
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