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Friends and relatives of the late Thomas Alva Edison, hopeful of long-hidden scientific wonders, watched his son Charles open the inventor's old rolltop desk (it had been closed to the public since Edison's death in 1931). Inside, besides masses of notes crammed into pigeonholes; a clutter of zoo-odd vials and miscellaneous containers, a piece of vulcanized rubber, scraps of tinfoil, scraps of old cigars, packets of seeds, two biographies of Edison, a collection of smoking-room stories, a bottle of soda mints, a partly used bottle of mouthwash, a plug of chewing tobacco...
...William Alva Gifford has spent his past 15 summers playing golf and writing a book. At each summer's end he has come back to Montreal's Cooperating Theological Colleges (affiliated with McGill University), where for 30 years he has taught the history of religion. This year he can show the results of his 15-summers' labor: a 600-page volume, The Story of the Faith (Macmillan; $5). Published this month, it was sure to bring Professor Gifford many a letter of praise and protest...
...Alva Morrison...
Married. Captain Bruce Alva Gimbel, 32, ATCman and merchant princeling, eldest son of Bernard F., autocrat of all the Gimbels (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Ave., etc.); and Barbara Ann Poulson Caton, 24; both for the second time; in Long Beach, Calif...
...dance, its critics are superior to the Times's. Under Mrs. Reid, the hiring & firing has shown spotty judgment. A good man like Columnist Franklin P. Adams was let go; Walter Lippmann was brought in; so was Lucius Beebe, with his ormolu prose. In the days of Alva Johnston and of Stanley Walker, the Trib's city coverage was the sprightliest in town...