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Died. Albert Nelson Marquis, 88, founder, longtime editor and 23 lines of Who's Who, after a brief illness; in Evanston, Ill. In 1899 Marquis issued his first edition, with 8,602 names. It sold 4,000 copies. The last (22nd) edition contained 31,692 names, sold over 60,000. Marquis normally received 25 self-nominations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 3, 1944 | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

Graduating in '39 Long went to work for the Harris Trust and Savings Bank. He is as yet single and claims Evanston Illinois as his home town...

Author: By K. H. Seltz, | Title: Midshipmen -- | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

...Evanston, 111. dowager demanded 17 ration books for her 17 cats. A family of three Philadelphia Main Liners declared an excess of 4,500 cans-enough to cost them 108 eight-point coupons a year for 41 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit the Can Opener | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

From an ice-coated sun deck on a suburban Evanston, Ill. home, a half-paralyzed chemist last week slipped and fell to his death. Thus prosaically ended the life of Winford Lee Lewis, 64, who invented one of the deadliest weapons of chemical warfare: lewisite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Death of an Inventor | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...Evanston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1942 | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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