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Various stages in the career of James Russell Lowell are brought to light in an exhibition of unpublished letters and first editions from his pen in the Lowell House Library. The collection has been loaned through the courtesy of the poet's grandson, Dr. F. L. Burnett '02 and Miss Elizabeth Putnam, a relative...
...trust and the $1,000,000 Yonkers house; to Daughter Margaret Hickman Schulz Biddle, a $5,756,555 trust fund. Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 80; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 75; Senator James Eli Watson of Indiana, 68; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances Burnett, 22, vanilla extract scioness; Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr., 29, Boston socialite, president of Skyways, Inc.; and Frank Penrose Sproul, 25, Harvardman, assistant manager of Skyways, Inc.; instantly, when Ames's cabin monoplane went into a tail spin at a height of 2,500 ft., crashed in a field; in Randolph...
Vice President Verne Edwin Burnett spoke for General Foods, stressed the competitive importance of the sales figure. He said few other food companies published it, "wholesalers' and other buyers of our products could say things to us that they could not say to our competitors, thus putting our salesmen at a disadvantage...
...follows: Amherst College, his alma mater ($200,000); Smith College, whence Mrs. Morrow was graduated ($200,000); The Smithsonian Institution; Columbia University; Union Theological Seminary; the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor; Englewood charities. To the late President George Daniel Olds of Amherst College; Professor Charles Theodore Burnett of Bowdoin College; onetime Dean Frederick James Eugéne Woodbridge of Columbia's graduate faculties; Martin Egan of J. P. Morgan & Co.; and Arthur S. Springer, his secretary, go bequests of $25,000 each. The will directs that Mrs. Morrow "provide for herself and my children," leaves specific...
...will have a hard time putting down one of Burnett's books before you have finished it; The Silver Eagle is no exception. As in Little Caesar, the scene is contemporary Chicago, but this time the hero is no gangster but a racketeer perforce. Francis Cecil Harworth (ne plain Keogh) has come up from scratch to a position that includes the ownership of several nightclubs, a gambling house, a Rolls-Royce and a limited but attractive choice of women. All his businesses are strictly legal with the exception of the gambling house. Harworth is a hard young man with...