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Gabler, Paul Warren of 456 Mary Place, Elgin; Elgin High. Josimovich. John Brigham of 1400 Sedgwick Street, Chicago; Francis W. Parker School, Chicago. Kelley, Donald Reed of 502 Grace Street. Elgin; Elgin High. Leavitt. Gordon Hodsdon of 522 North Spring Street. La Grange; Lyons Township High. Person, Conrad Erik of 6518 South Kimbark Street, Chicago: Hyde Park High Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Lists Released | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

Thanks for your reviews of The Snake Pit and Albert Deutsch's The Shame of the States [TIME, Dec. 20]. They both show our need for better facilities and staffing for our mental institutions. Twice I have been resident in Elgin State Hospital (Ill.) as a patient ... It is my belief that mental illness is no more serious than many other of the serious illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and heart trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...London, Major Horace Elgin Dodge, high-flying U.S. auto heir, came out of a British court tussle with his fortune undamaged but his self-esteem dented. Lord Chief Justice Goddard had decided against an art dealer who was suing Dodge for $27,200, the uncollected price of a painting. Dodge had claimed that the painting was a bogus Sir Thomas Lawrence, which he never would have bought if he had been sober. Commented the Lord Chief Justice: "Dodge was behaving . . . as what would be described in his own country as a common drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Other Elgin ministers were so impressed by Peirce's statement that they decided to adapt it for general distribution in pamphlet form. Promptly Elgin's undertakers proposed a meeting to talk it over. Such a meeting, explained a representative of the undertakers, "was in the interest of two 'fine professions,' both seeking to give the public what it wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Decent Burial | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Elgin's ministers decided to go ahead with their pamphlet, called it "When Death Comes." Its main points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Decent Burial | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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