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Author Ben Ray Redman, 34, served in the Royal Flying Corps during the War, was scout pilot of the 79th Squadron of the British Expeditionary Forces. Poet, critic, essayist, translator, short-story-writer, he was literary editor of The Spur, now writes a weekly column, "Old Wine in New Bottles," for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1926 he married Actress Frieda Inescort. Other books: Masquerade, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gustave Flaubert-a Biography...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, sold his Manhattan house (No. 2 East 79th St.) to Augustus Van Home Stuyvesant & Miss Anne W. Stuyvesant...
Enthroned. Most Rev. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 64, the 79th successor to St. Augustine as Archbishop of Canterbury, and thus ecclesiastical head of the Church of England, with royal pomp and circumstance in the historic cathedral of his See. Long intimate friend, honorary chaplain of Queen Victoria, persistent and smiling bachelor in spite of her advice to marry, Dr. Lang was most recently Archbishop of York...
...thousand doctors signed their names in the registration book of the American Medical Association in Minneapolis last week. The 79th annual get-together was in session; from all parts of the U. S. doctors had come to pool their problems and share their results. Minnesota's governor, the Hon. Theodore Christiansen, gave them hearty welcome, then the 15 scientific divisions went into action, 400 learned papers were presented and earnestly discussed...
Edison. In Manhattan, the Edison Pioneers celebrated with a dinner the 79th birth anniversary of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Mr. Edison basked in the sun at Fort Myers, Fla., but sent them a telegram: "Many thanks. Feeling fine. Weather beautiful. Coconuts are dropping all over the place. Wish you were here." To newspapermen of whom he entertained two large parties during the day, he said: "I couldn't retire. Just like trying to stop smoking cigarets. . . . Inventions are away ahead of the people...