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...paucity of essential facts was more than made up for to the Press by Starr Faithfull's background and home life. The family, occupying one floor of a brownstone house, consisted of Starr, her sister, her mother and stepfather, Stanley Faithfull, a not prosperous chemist and salesman for a pneumatic mattress concern. Lean, gimlet-eyed, red-whiskered, bewildered, he talked & talked to the thronging newshawks who came away with many conflicting stories and white lies. For some reason his daughter was made an "heiress" by the first sensational stories, a description soon dropped by all but the tabloids. But other...
...years ago a high-school instructor named John Thomas Scopes ambled into the drugstore at Dayton. Tenn. There he met his friend George W. Rappelyea, chemist and coal man. Outside a rickety old Ford rattled down the dusty main street of the village (pop. 1705). The Cumberland hills beyond drew a green circle around Dayton's early summer stagnation. Perched on soda fountain stools, Rappelyea and Scopes discussed the State's month-old law against teaching evolution. They both believed in the theory, loudly agreed the new statute was ''damn nonsense." Lounging oldsters pricked up their...
...advertisements of Manhattan's Sheffield Farms, a division of National Dairy Products Corp., Thomas Alva Edison lent his photograph and wrote: "The Almighty knew His business when He apportioned milk.* He is the best chemist we have...
...radicals is the "old" Freeman edited by Albert Jay Nock. It kept a circulation of about 10,000 until 1924, when Mrs. Francis Neilson decided that she could play "angel" no longer. Last year the magazine was revived as The New Freeman by Peter Fireman, a Russian-born chemist who came to the U. S. 49 years ago and amassed moderate wealth in the paint business (Magnetic Pigment Co. of Trenton...
...chemist by training, Alcoholman Adams entered industry via Wall street. He was graduated from Yale in 1904, in 1910 was made a member of Callaway, Fish & Co.. Manhattan. Eight years later he was made Air Reduction's treasurer. Chairman of the company is his older brother, Frederick Baldwin Adams. Alcohol has had no president since Russell R. Brown resigned last January, a fact which adds to Mr. Adams' duties. But he always appears cool, extremely neat, does not look his 50 years. At Yale he was voted "most likely to succeed" by classmates who now also hail...