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Professor of Philosophy here since 1924, Whitehead retired in 1937 at the age of 75. His retirement brought praise for the man from the ends of the earth and deep regret at his leaving. Before his Harvard appointment he taught at Cambridge University and the University of London. With Albert Einstein he did considerable work in the mathematical field, and he is the author of "Principal Mathematica" and "The Principle of Relativity...
Died. Alfonso Pío Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Count of Covadonga, 31, onetime heir to the Spanish throne, who in 1933 renounced his right of succession to marry first one commoner and then another; of his family disease, hemophilia,* brought on by injuries when the car in which he was being driven by a night-club cigaret-girl smashed into a telegraph pole; in Miami, Fla. In accordance with directions cabled by his royal parents, he was buried on the spot, with simple Catholic rites...
...advertising intensive MBS regional coverage, has as well a collection of sponsored shows which uses its full network. Their business has grown from a gross of $1,364,876 for 1935 to $2,269,078 for 1937. The first eight months of 1938 brought them $1,673,913 and contracts already signed for the last four months add up to some $909,200 more. With sales for the year still going strong, MBS already has a 1938 gross under contract which betters its 1937 peak by some 13.6%, is 22.7% ahead of last year on its first eight months...
...Government bonds. First kingpin in this field was Charles Frederick Childs, who sold his business in 1928 after flinty Andrew Mellon's slashing of the public debt by $10,000,000,000 slashed the turnover in "Governments." Although Trader Childs bought back his firm when Depression I brought a new tide of Federal financing, he is no longer kingpin. Now dominating the Government bond business is C. F. Childs's onetime head trader, Christopher J. Devine...
Landing in Manhattan John Fitzgerald Kennedy, son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, brought a gift to President Roosevelt: a harpoon...