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...Long Island home of smart, slim Floyd Bostwick Odium, president of Atlas Utilities Corp., leisurely thieves took four prized paintings, frames and all. Among them: a Gainsborough, a Watteau, a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, a landscape by Richard Wilson, valued to gether at about $50,000. Detectives ar rested a butler and cook recently dis charged by the Odiums, recovered the paintings...
Died. Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, 70, chairman of the corporation and one-time (1923-30) president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, originator and one time (1901-23) director of the U. S. Bureau of Standards; of coronary occlusion (constriction of the heart ar-tery), immediately after dictating a tribute to his old friend Thomas Alva Edison (see below); in Boston. With Judge Robert Grant and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, he was appointed by Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts to review the evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927. Three months ago he said he hoped...
...High citizenship expectancy" is a quality which, so f ar as it could be gauged by competitive tests, distinguished four 9th grade schoolboys who last month were awarded the first Emily Jane Culver Scholarships given by Culver Military Academy at Culver, Ind. These four, who are in the upper third of their classes, "emotionally stable and in good health, possessed of ambition and a settled purpose in life," are George R. Koons, 14, of Chicago, Guy Barry, 15, of Portage, Mich., Robert Ernst Carroll, 14, of Fall River, Mass, and Campbell Gould, of Toledo. Unable otherwise to attend Culver...
...scholastic survival of dialects and traditions is worth little." I can not speak from personal experience as to the Gaelic of the Scottish Highlands but I do know that Welsh is very much alive. I know two proofs of this: first, there is a Welsh newspaper the "Baner ar Amseran Cymon" of which I have a copy and, second, the children talk Welsh. As long as the children talk a language, that language is still a live one, not dead nor artificially fostered for patriotic reasons. If the situation is the same in northern Scotland and the Western Isles...
...interesting to note that where the funeral costs are higher, i.e., in the South, collection failures ar eteh lowest. Where the charges average the least, as in Oklahoma, Arkansas, north Texas, the collection failures are greatest. Evidently, the desire for more extravagant funerals demonstrates the willingness of bereaved families to pay for what they want...