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...Harvard Fund Council's first slated meeting of the year held at the Harvard Club of Boston last night, a tribute was paid to the late J.W. Hallowell '01. It was announced that Chester C. Bolton '05 of Cleveland, Ohio, had been appointed a member of the Council in place of the late C.C. Stillman '09, noted benefactor to the University, who died last summer...
...Bolton In Ohio Politics...
Died. Wilfred, "The Royal Rabbit" (TIME, Aug. 30), gobbled by a stray dog which broke into Wilfred's pen near Bolton Abbey, the estate of the Ninth Duke of Devonshire. The King-Emperor had purchased one-half of Wilfred for ten shillings from Bob Tomlinson, the local rector's son, and presented this fractional interest to Bob's sister Kathleen who already owned the other half of Wilfred...
...John B. Bolton, expert in fabrics, invented the cloth out of which semisoft collars are made. Then there was John M. Van Heusen, who vainly tried to sell the material to collar manufacturers until one day he talked to Isaac ("Iky") Phillips, a shirt manufacturer. Mr. Phillips arranged to give Mr. Van Heusen a royalty and had his Phillips, Jones Co. make up a job lot of the new collars...
...collar manufacturers whom Mr. Van Heusen had solicited were surprised at this quick sweep to popularity. So, no laggards, they at once produced semisoft collars of goods like the Van Heusen material. He sued them for infringement of patents and got $3,000,000 upon compromise. John B. Bolton expected to receive 30% of this sum for his work on the fabric. He got nothing, sued. Last week there was another compromise, whereby Mr. Bolton received more than $1,000,000 from Mr. Van Heusen...