Show WHO S NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON R GODFREY LOWELL CABOT D DR donor of the columbia university prizes in journalism awarded to two south american editors gets top rating in dr n G Q L cabot i this depart listed high as ments war time listing s lamplighter of men of good will as against the disturbers disturb ers and troublemakers trouble makers dr cabot 78 years old has all his life been a steady ground gainer in the cause of science and the humanities a scientist and humanitarian in n his own widely varied endeavors not only bankrolling bank rolling progress but bringing it through by his own inventiveness and enterprise the experimental house being pi pictured stured in the newspapers as scientists seek to trap sunlight and store it in the cellar for winter use is traceable to dr cabot in 1937 he gave harvard university to carry forward som some e of his ideas about storing solar energy A year later he gave a similar amount to the massachusetts institute of technology for the same purpose and now prof hoyt C hottel of al I 1 T has his sunshine bungalow built with a beat trap on the roof sluicing sunshine down into the cellar perhaps with a winter supply of sunshine put up like jelly or preserves nobody would want to start a war he has been a generous patron of aviation learning to fly a seaplane in his late years inventing a system by which a plane can pick up fuel in flight and is now governor and former president of the national aeronautic association he has endowed various branches of research including botanical studies A native of boston he attended M I 1 T two years was graduated from harvard in 1882 and laid the basis of his fortune manufacturing lampblack in worthington pa in 1887 branching out in gases and carbides carbines car bides ONALD WILLIS DOUGLAS D DONALD president of douglas aircraft inc of santa monica calif says war orders for american planes and the spurt oar war boom jn in building no bubbles bubble says wont end I 1 d D W dous douglas with a bursting boom bubble he and other plane builders tackle worth of orders and promise they can deliver planes a year who knows what will come next after the european nations settle their own quarrels says mr douglas mr douglas is in the midst of a strictly orthodox aviation career without any stunting or barnstorming A brooklyn boy he be was grooved quietly through the al 1 I T and into the glenn martin plant as chief engineer he will get an important niche in aviation history as the designer of the first plane to lift its own weight that proved hira him an expert on the payload pay load an advantage which he be has pressed hard he was in the U S signal corps at the start of the world war in 1920 he founded the plane manufacturing fac turing company which later became douglas aircraft 0 gypsy SMITH a full blooded ro VJ many gypsy born under a hornbeam tree in england 78 years ago is the worlds most famous gypsy smith evangelist S row preach once militant ing in new for persuasion york H he e turns from militancy to persuasion he says he has given up scolding and frightening people on this his thirty fifth visit to new york he preaches love and hope for 60 years he be has carried a clothes clothespin pin as a symbol of his personal salvation he and his father made clothes pins an old lady bought some and gave him a bible he was 18 years old then had never slept under a roof and was unable to read but he be taught himself with the bible he go is a small spruce compact man with broad shoulders and the general look of a successful business man ile he thinks the great evangelists dwight L moody and charles G pinney ey helped to end other depressions and that the way out of t this 3 one is the path of a new fait faith for the multitude his name was and he spell it when he first learned to read he believes great wars and disasters will end when we have become masters of small things Is but that faith of if and ana religion m must be ever widening scope it must b be e persuasive rather than militant devai evangelism igel ism he insists IC fe tres anu service |