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When Clare Brett, 4, fell from her horse and ran a stick into her right eye, she was lucky that the accident occurred at .home in Fairfield, Conn. Near the Bretts (Grandfather George Platt Brett is board chairman of Macmillan Co., publishers) lives Dr. Edward Nicholas DeWitt, able ophthalmologist, 1917 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School where he studied under famed Dr. George Edmund de Schweinitz. Dr. DeWitt knew a way to stitch up Baby Brett's torn...
Last week the following were news: Hubert Templeton Parson resigned as president of F. W, Woolworth Co. and was succeeded by Byron DeWitt Miller, 55, vice president & treasurer. Mr. Parson will be 60 (Woolworth retirement age, suddenly enforced) next September. He also gave illness (arthritis) as a reason for his resignation. There have been rumors of a rift in the Woolworth management for some time. Last year Mr. Parson made many an optimistic statement regarding the company at the time a pool was trying to push the stock. The new ruler of 2,430 stores in five countries started...
...Associated Press meeting, held before the Publishers' sessions, confined its discussion to the broadcasting of news. Publisher Jerome Dewitt Barnum of the Syracuse Post-Standard asked the A. P. to forbid the use of its bulletins both for direct broadcast and for such interpretive deliveries as that of Lowell Thomas for the Literary Digest. To make such a rule effective, it would be necessary to enlist both United Press and International News Service in a boycott. But some of the editors opined that such broadcasts, even by commercial advertisers, actually increase the circulation of their newspapers. Although...
Justice?William DeWitt Mitchell of Minnesota...
...Financially the rest of the credit goes to Dudley Stuart Blossom, tireless campaigner who with his wife gave some $900,000; and to President John Long Severance of the Musical Arts Association who gave $2,500,000 of his oil & steel fortune, and for whose wife, the late Elizabeth DeWitt Severance, the building has been called Severance Hall...