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...Reports, Inc. sells the statistical service through 16 branch offices in the U. S. and Canada. Publishers' Financial Bureau distributes the founder's views to 400 newspapers. A. P. W. Paper Co. (paper towels) is Babson-dominated, as is Gamewell Co., which makes fire and burglar alarms, signal systems, automatic sprinklers. Babson Institute is an endowed, non-profit-making business school with a 300-acre campus and ten buildings in Babson Park, Mass. where all Babson activities in Wellesley Hills are concentrated. The Institute now has 130 students including sons of President Benjamin Fairless of Carnegie-Illinois Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Propheteer | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...England, as well as young Lord Billing have proposed to her on the evening when, out of well-bred loyalty to her accomplices, she cracks the duchess' safe. When Lord Billing surprises her in the act of handing over her booty to her partner, Fay Cheyney rings the burglar alarm herself. The chance that her hostess will allow her to go to jail is removed next morning when Lord Kelton reveals that, in his anxiety to warn an innocent young girl about the people she will meet in polite society, he has written Fay an outspoken letter about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Trap In Manhattan, Hatcheck Girl Katherine Steyer, 32, was electrocuted in her apartment by charged wires strung through the draperies. The wires had been arranged as a burglar trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...Atlantic City, A. A. A. S. officers and bigwigs made more theoretical and philosophical speeches than usual last week, but there was a fine display of devices to feed the traditional appetite of U. S. science for neat experiments and clever machines (see p. 50). There was a burglar alarm which fills a room with ultrashort radio waves, so that a person stepping into the room interrupts the waves and actuates the signal. There was a photoelectric meter which determines the Vitamin D content of a cod-liver oil sample by passing a light beam through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Holiday | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Ways & Means, a farce about two bankrupt professional guests who are luckily burgled, persuade the burglar to rob someone else and split the proceeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Three Triples | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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