Show F W HOS NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON JEW EW YORK on august 2 ot of this year dr gustavus adolphus elsen eisen will be 92 years old it was Us his research that established so far without author dr elsen eisen at 91 e chal still delves into le lenge the chal bial past and future ice of antioch as the oldest surviving record ol of the faith ot of the I 1 apostles the chalice was exhibited during holy week at st thomas episcopal church new yo york rk with the conjecture that I 1 its ts inner cup may have been the beginning of the legend bend of the holy grail in ili a book published in 1926 doctor docto r eisen established the use of the chalice in the church at antioch not later than th an the end of the first st century cen of the christian era at the age of 85 doctor E elsen isen learned to decipher cuneiform inscriptions to write a treatise on an mesopotamian cylindrical at seals or lit in 1036 1936 he published 15 volumes summarizing his research in legends of the holy grail and is now at work on studies of early portraits of christ and the apostles his ey eyesight and hearing are still good and he puts in a full working day doctor eisen has published more than books covering his am amazing abing range of inquiry in a half dozen sciences including studies of earth works fig culture archeology archaeology arche ancient grass portraits of george washington and geological zoological and botanical subjects born bom in sweden he was a frail child unable to attend school frequently in the horticulture Is country with modern field tutors w who h 0 of off the fie scientist stimulated his scientific interests in the university of upsala kupsala he wrote a thesis on earthworks earthworms earth works which attracted the attention of charles darwin his correspondence with darwin put him in in touch with alexander E agassiz the amerlan naturalist and when he ha obtained his doctorate in 1873 and removed t to america the t two men formed a long and fruitful association for 40 years doctor eisen was on the pacific coast working a at t times with the late luther burbank on plant research last year the california academy of science honored him as the founder of the states great fig growing industry smyrna figs frequently had been taken to california but there was no yield doctor eisen studied this problem and reached the conclusion that the failure was due to lack of fertilization male trees were brought over and california began gathering all fig crops the chalice which had been found in the ancient ruins of an antioch cioch in 1910 and placed in the louvre in paris was brought to this coary country in 1914 to safeguard it during the war doctor eisens conclusion was that it had been made by a great roman artist Appollo dorus who lived from 50 to A D doctor eisens avid scientific studies continue on unabated into his a tenth t nth decade he is a bachelor none has ranged farther into the past while pressing eagerly into the future in his zest for knowledge 0 ON A cotton patch in the high mountains of north carolina a lad leaned on his hoe and in his imagination followed out in the world the 1115 gyroscope aids aid train in the lad with hoe in valley far be whirl to wealth low one day he did follow the lingering plume of smoke and that is linked in the long chain of causation with the sperry corporations harbinger of one more spring the lad with the hoe ore one thomas A morgan president of the corporation announces a net income of fy ft 1938 against 2949 8 00 the year he d the he navy when he hung v Is hoe hoc qualified as an elect electrician riJan and running a gyroscope scope sank his career in this maglo magic whirligig that geared him in with the sperry company and just as the he great war was breaking he chased the czars azars navy all over the far e eastern as tern map to sell it gyroscopes he caught caugh tup up with it and rang up a sale in one of the epics of free american enterprise ter prise thereafter he planted gyroscopes gyroscope a on ion all the great fighting ships of the world and sailed a true course ito I 1 to the presidency of the sperry corporation po ration in 1928 ile he became one of the grand panjandrums drums of aviation he HA says b got where he is by thinking of today and its de mands demands rather than of yesterday or tomorrow he had ten months schooling when he trailed the train rin the valley vahey 0 consolidated news features feature service |