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...water supply, fire insurance economics and analysis of earthquake effects." Sued. Harold Fowler McCormick, 61, chairman of the finance committee of International Harvester Co., sometime husband of the late Edith Rockefeller Mc Cormick and of Operasinger Ganna Walska; by Rhoda Tanner Doubleday of Santa Barbara, Calif., onetime wife of Felix Doubleday (adopted son of the late Publisher Frank N. Doubleday) ; for $1,500,000, for breach of promise. Charge: that Mr. McCormick showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love letters, made and later retracted a verbal promise of marriage. Died, Grace Fryer, 35, onetime painter of luminous watch...
...woman, Mrs. Cecil W. ("Teddy") Kenyon of Waban, Mass. Pretty, blonde wife of a former transport pilot, Mrs. Kenyon received $5,000 and the title of champion airwoman. Not so good as Mrs. Kenyon at spot landings, but unsurpassed at aerobatics was an engaging young man named Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's famed White Horse Tavern. In his fast biplane with a picture of Felix the Cat painted on the side, Pilot Zelcer scored 590 points out of a possible 600 at stunting, won the men's title...
...local boosters, made crack glider pilots wonder why Elmira should be the only soaring site in the East. One who wondered was Richard Chichester du Pont. Last week he did something about it. Richard du Pont, 24, blond and clean-cut, is the younger son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Like his brother Felix Jr. he is an able airplane pilot, has logged some 1,000 hr. at the stick. He started gliding in 1929. At the July meet he persuaded his father to go up with...
...Harvard Law School, Professor Felix Frankfurter will be on leave of absence for the whole year in order to give the George Eastman lectures at Oxford University. In his absence, his work will be divided among Professors Thomas R. Powell, James McC. Landis, and Henry M. Hart '26. During the second half year, Professor James A. McLaughlin will be on leave of absence, and his work will be taken over by Edward H. Warren '95, Weld Professor of Law from 1919 to 1929, who is returning from England to give his former courses. Professor Joseph Warren '97, is returning...
...Long Beach businessman named Charles W. Ackerman. He was scarcely pleased to have it. Businessman Ackerman's troubles with St. John's Church-by-the-Sea were of long standing. Last winter, as chairman of the church council, he squabbled over policies with the pastor, Rev. Felix G. Robinson. One day Pastor Robinson angrily struck Businessman Ackerman, who retaliated. Businessman Ackerman held a $10,000 bond as guarantor of a mortgage on the church. To protect his investment he bid in the church at a foreclosure sale. Last week he presented his fellow Lutherans with an ultimatum: they...