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...William Aver ell Harriman resigned as chairman of Aviation Corp. to devote more time to his chairmanship of Union Pacific Railroad. He was succeeded by Robert Lehman, 41, his classmate at Yale (1913), partner in Lehman Bros., second cousin of Herbert Lehman, Democratic candidate for Governor of New York...
...William Aver ell Harriman, 40. banker (Brown Bros., Harriman & Co.), poloist, was elected chairman of Illinois Central Railroad's executive committee. This marks the first entrance of Mr. Harriman into railroad management although he was recently made a director of Union Pacific, In the affairs of both Union Pacific and Illinois Central Mr. Harriman's father, the late Edward Henry Harriman, was dominant. Union Pacific has a 25% interest in Illinois Central...
...from Jules Verne's book that Sir Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that he derived the thought, while the two were on the Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-18. Were Sir Hubert a charlatan he might aver that the idea popped from an inherited cell of his brain. In 1642 appeared an English book Mathematical Magick in which a "submarine" was intelligently described, its operation suggested with fair sense, and the indication hinted that it could be. used in the "ice and cold-blocked north." Author of Mathematical Magick...
Baudelaire's gloomy intensity and obvious poetic ability, soon made him a marked man in a Paris that swarmed with talents. One of the first Frenchmen to discover Edgar Allan Poe (whom he considered his affinity), Baudelaire was Poe's French translator, and some critics aver the translation betters the original. With no sense of money, he was never out of debt; and his poverty, complicated by Luciferian pride and creeping illness, might have brought him to an unknown end had it not been for his mother and his friends who loved him. He died...
...earlier a cancer is attacked the better the chance for cure. Indeed, cancer experts aver they can cure every case of cancer which they can reach if they get at it in its early stages. Trouble is, most cancer victims delay until the disease has started to invade their bodies...