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...ANCEL BAIRD Riga, Latvia...
...lost his faith in God. Now he has begun to lose his faith in his own love for his wife because one of her friends (Ilka Chase) has seduced him. When John Loving starts to tell the story of his projected novel to Elsa Loving and his uncle, Father Baird (Robert Loraine), his lower nature proposes a bitter conclusion, in which the hero's wife dies of pneumonia. Elsa Loving, quick at deductions, goes for a walk in the rain but when she catches pneumonia she does not die. Playwright O'Neill calls Days Without End a "modern...
...wife bought a car, drove to Springfield, Ill., bought two more papers which Publisher Stern sold four years later for a fat profit. In 1919 he took over the Camden, N. J. Evening Courier, and, later, the Camden Morning Post. He spent $500,000, ousted U. S. Senator David Baird's machine, installed a City Commission, ran up the Courier's circulation from 9,000 to 80,000, won his campaign for a bridge across the Delaware River. Across that bridge five years ago Publisher Stern marched into Philadelphia and bought the down-at-heel little Record. Since...
...that the physician who was summoned at the time this accident occurred in 1848 was no less a person than Dr. Edward H. Williams, who later became general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. From there he entered the locomotive building business as a member of the firm of M. Baird & Co., later Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co , and later Burnham, Williams & Co. operating the Baldwin Locomotive Works here in Philadelphia...
Skepticism greeted a tale of Tibet brought to London last week by one Jill Cossley-Blatt, Englishwoman, and a Dr. Irvine Baird, Canadian. But the pair claimed that they had proof of a tribe who live in a cranny of the Himalayas and "are white and appear to belong to the earliest civilization. We were able to identify this race of people by their writings. Their hieroglyphics are the same as those of the old Chaldeans. It is possible that some 2,000 or more years B. c. they moved away from their home in Mesopotamia and traveled...