Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tables, as the average life time - expectancy - should serve as a sound basis for a Life Subscription Rate. The Tables are averages which produce a reasonable margin of profit to a Life Insurance Company; used by TIME, they should result similarly. On the other hand, if one's age determines the rate, you would be at the mercy of the sub scriber, as his honesty might make you, his dishonesty break you. L. G. WELCHER...
...President Andrews is also a Budd, as well as a Hupp director. At the age of 19 he was a dealer on the curb market, retired from the brokerage business (1919) at 40, bought, and later sold, a chain of California hotels. His Connecticut estate, Freestone Castle, is patterned upon English models; he has also a Colonial home in Altadena, Cal. He is the owner of the Sialia, a yacht formerly in the possession of Henry Ford. The Sialia is the fourth largest privately owned yacht in the world...
Chief financial figure in Kolster is Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels, board chair man. Chief radio expert is Engineer Frederick A. Kolster. Born in Geneva, Switzer land, transported to Boston, Mass., at the age of two, Mr. Kolster was originally destined to be a musician. His family came to this country, indeed, because his father had been engaged to play a violin with the Boston Symphony. Young Kolster therefore soon had a violin handed to him. But his small hands did not well adapt themselves to the instrument and when to the violin was added a piano, Engineer Kolster, rebellious, entered...
Died. Howard de Talleyrand, Prince de Sagan, 19, of Paris, son of Duchess de Talleyrand (Anna Gould); in Paris; of pleural complications after shooting himself because his parents refused to let him marry until he became of age (TIME, June...
...McCormick of Chicago, granddaughter of John Davison Rockefeller, wife of Max Oser, onetime Swiss riding master, arrived in the U. S. last week on vacation from her home in Berne, Switzerland. With her were husband, son, daughter. It is her first visit since her widely publicized marriage, at the age of 18, in 1923. The Oser children were to meet Great-Grandfather Rockefeller...