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George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, ablest gentleman rider in the U. S., broke his collar bone when his mount fell in the Raceland Steeplechase at Pimlico...
...most famed work has been in chlorophyll, the green stuff of life in plants. Last year Columbia University gave Dr. Conant its Chandler Medal, the American Chemical Society (New York section) its William H. Nichols Medal. Dr. Conant is rated a stern taskmaster -and admired for it-by his ablest students. Chemistry is his whole life. Yet he is no absent-minded professor: decade ago he leaped into the Charles River to save a would-be suicide. His wife, mother of his two children, is Grace Thayer Richards, daughter of the late Chemist Theodore W. Richards who won a Nobel...
...Fred Page Johnson, vice president (finance de- partment) from $22,300 to $13,800. Other salaries fixed by the Court: for vice presidents $6,000 to $18,600, for secretary & treasurer $6,000, for general solicitor $4,800. President Baldwin, rated one of the ablest operating men in railroads, sent to the "Mop" by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to help straighten out its affairs, still gets $12,750 a year as executive committee chairman of affiliated Denver and Rio Grande, $6,000 as president of Missouri Pacific Trans- portation Co. (bus line). ¶ In Chicago, result of disclosing that he gets...
...Actress Robson that George Bernard Shaw wrote Major Barbara, tale of a Salvation Army lass, his ablest document on social service...
...rustications," were his comparative sobriety and calmness at the centre of the whirlwinds he created, and his real interest even then in publishing. He haunted Boston newspaper plants. He made the Lampoon not only funny but profitable. And he decided Joseph Pulitzer's sensational new World was the ablest newspaper in the country...