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...John the Baptist that poets have been looking for since Harriet Monroe [the magazine's founder] died"-and agreed to do a fund-raising reading next year. Among the sponsors for the supper: Pierre du Pont III, William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Daniel R. Topping, Charles Edison. Conspicuously absent was Adlai Stevenson's ex-wife Ellen Borden Stevenson, longtime Poetry Patroness who resigned from the magazine's board 18 months...
Looking ahead, many a company saw a race to keep up with expanding markets. Commonwealth Edison Co. announced a five-year $600 million construction program. Hercules Powder planned a $10 million plant at Parlin, N.J., to be completed next year, for production of a new type of polyethylene; this will be the company's first move into plastics production. But money for expansion was getting more expensive. For the second time in three months, Manhattan's big banks boosted interest rates on prime business loans, from 3¼% to 3½%, the highest rate in 25 years...
...before you despair of the blundering guesswork your girl hunt must involve, remember that it was a hunch that made Edison invent the incandescent light. It was a hunch that made Napoleon march on Moscow. (If you want to know how the 100,000 who walked back to France felt, try walking down Garden Street at 1:10 some winter night after an unsuccessful date...
...seeing." Miss Helen Keller has been blessed and deservedly so with invaluable friends such as H. H. Rogers, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Dr. Van Dyko, Mark Twain, Phillips Brooks, William James, and the Dowager, Queen of Rumania. She has met many a magnate in America, including Ford and Edison. She has also been to the White House and met most of the presidents of her life-time: Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Coolidge. Before I proceed to the questions I asked, I must mention that her secretary, Miss Thompson, spoiled on her palm every word I uttered. The interview...
...first recorded sound (1877) was the voice of Thomas A. Edison, saying: "Mary had a little lamb." Most popular in the early days were such novelties as No News; or, What Killed the Dog and My Celebrated Liver Cure...