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...Thomas Alva Edison at his home in West Orange, N. J. was the recipient of the Rotary International Service Medal "in appreciation of a life of service to science, the arts, and humanity." While newsmen, photographers, waited after the ceremony he told a story: a man who suffered from a liver complaint went to Los Angeles for cure, recovered, started a sanitarium of his own. "Eighteen years afterward, the man died," declared Inventor Edison, "but before they could bury him his liver had got so strong they had to kill it with a club...
Suntanned, wearing a red rose in his lapel, swinging a walking stick, Thomas Alva Edison returned to his Llewellyn Park, N. J., home after wintering in Fort Myers, Fla. ; announced he would vote for Dry Senatorial Candidate Franklin W. Fort in New Jersey's primary election, remained mum on his rubber experiments. Mrs. Edison was a member of the Women's Committee backing Wet Candidate Dwight Whitney Morrow...
...regretfully remember, boy-edited journalism gradually passed away. Membership in the organization is gained by presenting a copy of a nonprofessional, personally published paper. Among its membership: Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, Representative James Montgomery Beck of Pennsylvania, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the late Charles Scribner, Thomas Alva Edison, Josephus Daniels, President Frank Brett Noyes of the A. P., U. S.-born Harry Gordon Selfridge, London store owner...
...Kodak's* golden jubilee Mr. Eastman obtained the same sort of ungrudged well-deserved publicity as his friend Thomas Alva Edison had received for the golden jubilee of the electric light bulb (TIME, May 27). Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane wrote: "Ruskin, who had worked to reproduce . . . [the] architecture in Venice . . . hailed the discovery of photography as a most important gift to education." Grace Goodhue Coolidge announced: "Instead of coming together to play games and eat ice cream and cake . . . each guest [at the Eastman birthday party] is to receive a golden anniversary camera and film by means of which...
...Thomas Alva Edison, discussing photography with newscameramen at his Fort Myers, Fla. winter home, said: "I don't like these talking pictures. I can't hear a word they say. Something will have to be done for the entertainment of 2,000,000 deaf persons like myself. Take this It girl [plump Cinemactress Clara Bow]. I used to like her, but now she's talking too and that spoils...