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Married. Mina Miller Edison, 69, widow (second wife) of Thomas Alva Edison, daughter of the late Co-Founder Lewis Miller of the Chautauqua Institution (TIME, Jan. i. 1934); and Edward E. Hughes, 73, retired lawyer and steelmaker of Franklin, Pa.; in Chautauqua...
Billy Rose (né Rosenberg), one of the brightest boys ever graduated from New York City's Public School No. 44, has brooked very few failures in his 34 years. As his biographer, Alva Johnston, has pointed out. Rose has become one of the shrewdest characters in the cut-throat life of the metropolis by sheer quickness of thinking. He won grade-school medals for sprinting by learning to jump the starter's gun without detection. Later Rose's instinct for what pleases the masses made him one of the most successful song writers of the times...
Left. By Inventor Thomas Alva Edison: a gross estate of $2,871,758. including worthless stock in 39 companies formed for Inventor Edison's research work...
...maintains a mortuary book in which he enters the names of eminent friends when they die. Among the 300 names already inscribed are Thomas Alva Edison, William Howard Taft, General William Crawford Gorgas, General George Washington Goethals, Sir William Osier...
...State in the Union, home of a considerable proportion of the U. S. insurance business, birthplace of J. P. Morgan the Elder. There, where Secession was debated long before the South was tempted, old Yankee families grew rich and conservative in the manufacture of textiles, tools, machines. When Thomas Alva Edison devised a lamp which never needed filling, the gadget appealed to a good Hartfordian whose fortune had come from linen. With $20,000 capital Austin C. Dunham founded Hartford Electric Light...