Show I i r WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK I I IBy By LEMUEL F. F PARTON N NEW EW YORK YORK YORK-on On August 2 of this year Dr Gustavus Adolphus Elsen Eisen will be 92 years old It was his hi research that established so far without author author- Dr Eisen Etsen at af 91 chal chal- Still Delves Delve Into Info lenge the Chal Chal- Pat Past and Future lee Ice of l Antioch as the oldest surviving record of the faith of the Apostles The chalice was exhibited exhibited during holy week at St. St Thomas Thom Thom- as Episcopal church New York I with the conjecture that its Inner I cup may have bave been the beginning of the legend of the Holy Grail In Ina a book published in 1926 1928 Doctor Risen Eisen established the use of the chalice in the Church at Antioch not later than the end of the first century cen con tury of the Christian era At the age of 01 85 Doctor Elsen learned to decipher cuneiform Inscriptions to write a treatise on Mesopotamian cylindrical seals sea or In 1936 he be published 15 volumes summarizing summarizing summa summa- his research In legends legend of the Holy Grail Grall and Is now DOW at work on studies of early portraits portraits portraits por por- traits of Christ and the apostles Ills JUs eyesight and hea hearing are till still good rood and he puts in a full working day Doctor Eisen Elsen has published more snore than books covering his amazing range of inquiry In a hall dozen sciences ad- ad including studies of earthworks earth works fig culture archeology ancient an an- dent clent grass portraits of George Washington and geological zoological cal cat and botanical subjects Born in Sweden he was a frail child unable to attend school freU frequently fre fre- in the U M- M IM I Horticulture If Is country with Modern Field tutors w who h o Of 01 the fhe Scientist stimulated his scientific interests inter inter- ests In the University of Upsala he be wrote a thesis on oh earthworks which attracted the attention of Charles Darwin His correspondence correspond correspond- ence with Darwin put him in touch with Alexander E. E Agassiz the American naturalist and when he obtained his doctorate in 1873 and removed to America the two men formed a long and fruitful tion For 40 years Doctor Eisen Risen was on the Pacific coast working at times with the late Luther Burbank Burbank Burbank Bur- Bur bank on plant research Last year the California Academy of Science honored him as a. the founder rounder of the states state's great growing fig Industry Smyrna figs frequently had been taken to California but there was no yield Doctor Elsen Eisen studied this problem and reached the conclusion that the failure was due to lack of fer ler- fer- fer lion Male lale trees were brought over and California began began be be- gan gathering fig fir crops The chalice which had bad been found in the ancient ruins of Antioch in 1910 and placed in the Louvre in Paris was brought to this countr country in 1914 to safeguard it during the war Doctor Eisens Eisen's conclusion was that it had been made by a great Roman artist who lived from front 50 SO to A. A I D. D Doctor Eisens Eisen's avid scientific studies continue on unabated into his tenth decade He is a bachelor None has bas ranged farther into the past while pressing eagerly into the future in his zest for knowledge O ON N A cotton patch in the high mountains of North Carolina a alad alad alad lad leaned on his hoe and aM aM in his imagination followed out in the world the 1115 Gyroscope Aids Aid train in the Lad With Hoe in valley far be- be Whirl to Wealth low One ne day he be did follow the lingering plume of smoke and that is linked in the long chain of causation with the Sperry corporations corporation's corpora corpora- tion's tlona harbinger of one more snore spring The lad with the hoe boe one Thomas A. A Morgan president of at the corporation corpo corpo- ration announces a net income of for 1938 against the year before lie joined the naV navy when be he hung bong up his boe qualified as al an electrician and nd running a gyroscope gyro 1100 scope sank sauk his bis career In this magic whirligig That geared him in with the Sperry company com corn pany panT lad and nd just as I the great creat war was breaking he be chased the Czars Czar's navy all over the far far- eastern map snap to te sell lell It gyre gyre- scopes copes He lie caught up with It and rang ran up a sale In one of the epics of or free American en en- n. n Thereafter be he planted gyroscopes on all the great fighting ships of the world and sailed a true course to tc the presidency of the Sperry cor corporation corporation in 1928 He lie became one ol ot the grand panjandrums of aviation He lie says sas he got where he i is b bj by thinking of today and its iti demands rather than of yesterday or tomorrow tomor row lie He had ten months' months schooling when he be trailed the train in the valley G I News Nw Feature V NU Service S |