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John Livingston Lowes, Higginson Professor of English at Harvard who is spending the current academic year at Oxford, has begun his series of lectures there, it was learned yesterday. Professor Lowes is lecturing at the English University as the first incumbent of the new George Eastman Visiting Professorship, established in 1928 by George Eastman of Rochester, New York...
...Whitley (No. 20) is unknown at Rhyne, Ga. On the day before at Rhine, Ga., a mob seized M. C. Wylie, accused of rape, shot him thrice, failed to kill him. He is now recovering in jail at Eastman...
Since early boyhood Inventor Gaisman, a bachelor, 60, has been having brilliant ideas. More than 1,000 of them have been patented. Swivel chairs, men's belts, carburetors have benefited from his inventions. And inventors are still spurred on by the memory of the $300,000 George Eastman paid Inventor Gaisman in 1914-for his writing-on-film patent. But his most profitable inventions have been in the razor field. He has created processes for making blades, has designed blades and razors. In 1906 he founded AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. which soon became important in the industry. Its chief...
...Rochester last week it was said-Mr. Eastman's philanthropic secretiveness pre-vented authentic announcement-that Mr. Eastman has in mind the creation of similar dental institutions in other parts of the world. If Dr. Burkhart goes from Rome to any of the Balkan countries or to Russia, human teeth in those regions are likely to benefit...
...Tycoon Eastman's public gifts all have had a peculiarly personal touch. For example, the London dental dispensary was the result of Mr. Eastman and Dr. Burkhart talking with Sir Albert Levy, English tobacconist, and Lord George Allardice Riddell, newspaperman. Signor Giacomo De Martini. Italian Ambassador at Washington, and Professor Amadeo Perna, foremost Italian dentist and a deputy in the Italian Parliament, interested the Rochester man in the needs of Romans. Two years ago two sons of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Prince Gustaf Adolf and Prince Sigvard, visited Mr. Eastman in Rochester. A few months later...