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Actually, the Bridge could have been carrying cars for several days except that the Boston Edison Company has not yet installed lights. On Monday, it will start placing temporary lights, which will be supplanted by permanent ones next spring...
...four other members of the executive committee have also helped put the post-war Debate Council back on its feet. They are: Bruce S. Lano '52, home secretary, Loster L. Ward '52, corresponding secretary, Julian I. Edison '51, publicity director, and John G. Morey, H'52, competition director, and A. Werner Plaus, vice-president...
Thomas A. Edison always had a warm spot in his heart for the Western Union Telegraph Co., because it gave him his start. As a young man, Edison was a Western Union telegrapher; later, the company bought his improved stock and commodity ticker for $40,000, which enabled Edison to set up as a full-time inventor...
Last week Western Union showed that it still has just as warm a regard for Edison's family. The company's board elected Mrs. Madeleine Edison Sloane, one of Edison's six children, as a director, the first woman-and the first Edison-to sit on the board. Fiftyish Mrs. Sloane has been active in charity, Republican politics and civic affairs, but has only a nodding acquaintance with business. (Her broker husband was a onetime governor and treasurer of the New York Security Dealers Association.) Nevertheless, she feels at home in the telegraph business. "I was brought...
...president of the Edison Institute, Lindseth has been a leader in the utility industry's fight against encroachment of public power. Four years before C.E.I. was divorced from North American Co. under the Utility Holding Company Act's "death sentence," Cleveland's Cyrus Eaton led a movement to bring C.E.I, under public ownership as a part of Cleveland's existing municipal power plant. Lindseth helped drum up an opposition which united management, labor and newspapers on C.E.I.'s side. Private ownership won. But Lindseth isn't letting his guard down. Says he: "The cold...